April 2017 | MONTH IN REVIEW

Here's quick summary of what we were up to this month.  We re-painted the surface on which the windlass sits and re-installed the windlass in the anchor locker. We installed new Polyflex engine mounts (read 'Installing New Engine Mounts' post). Last month we removed the fiberglass panel in the head (part of the shower) to access the bolts on the sail track. We were surprised to discover that there were no nuts on those bolts! It's obvious the sail track was installed after the shower. Even though it's only about a meter of the...

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How To Customise Your Blog on Blogger

Several days ago, the free third party template that we were using on our blog stopped working properly. The cool photo slider feature for each post unfortunately crashed (no idea why) and no idea where to even start looking, let alone try to understand or edit the six thousand lines of HTML code. After several failed attempts to restore the template, tired and frustrated, I decided to do away with the fancy pre-designed template and start afresh with one of the simple theme blogger templates available and customise it on my own. Sure - the blog doesn't look as fancy as it did before, but...

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Installing New Engine Mounts

After we finished spray painting the engine parts. It was time to install our new engine mounts.  Check out our rusty old engine mount on the left below (which we've replaced multiple times throughout our journey), and the new Poly Flex ones we installed on the right. These mounts are moulded from heat cured polymer alloys which are long lasting and oil/fuel resistant! Let's hope they'll perform as advertised. Old Mount  (one of the better looking ones) New Mount (made of polymer = no rust) The new mounts are unfortunately...

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