Today started with Mike from Seventh Wave(the fuel polisher)showing up about 0930 to pump out and "clean" all the diesel fuel on Zephyr. Being 27 years old, I'm not sure if anyone has done it before on Zephyr. With that many years and three owners before us, we felt it was a good idea to do it especially since the filters had clogged on our trip to Alaska.
Mike came on board and opened the access ports to the tanks and started pumping out the fuel and putting it through the filters in his truck. At one tank at a time, it takes a while to get it all "scrubbed" clean. It goes through a filter that is set to do 800 gallons per hour and each tank was passed through it for three hours. Each tank was down to about 70 gallons so it got well filtered. He changed the filters at least three times during the "cleaning" to make sure it was done right. He finally finished about 1600.
Brion Toss and Gordon showed up just after lunch to work on the mast head and replace the main sail sheave for a ball bearing one. The original kept binding up each time we tried to raise the sail. Brion took off up the mast to get the job done. He re threaded the line down the inside of the
mast and it was all replaced. We don't know if it solved the problem since we couldn't raise the sail--too much wind--but will try later.
Since I will be leaving tomorrow for Denver, we had lunch at Sea J's. As I have said in the past, they make the greatest burgers.
I'll be out of here tomorrow early in the morning so I can catch the Bainbridge Island ferry to Seattle and head East from there. With luck, I will be back in Aurora by late Wednesday night or Thursday at the latest. The roof gets replaced on Monday.
More to come.
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