Three recalls from previous posts:
- Frustrating shopping trips with little obviously achieved and time eaten up. Sometimes a necessary evil and an essential precursor to success.
- The little issue of the cutlery draw.
- Recovering Fred in a simulated MOB exercise.
Now hold those thoughts – or go back and reread them?!
Today three little steps bore fruit; emergency torches
housed throughout the vessel,
we also have a prototype boom crutch
I have no idea how it will be received but
both Scott and I are delighted that it has reduced deck clutter and made
getting about much easier. I also think
it brings additional safety benefits. I
hope that it won’t stumble against the “that’s not how we have done it before”
argument. (Just to be clear I completely
understand and support authenticity as a powerful argument in the preservation
of the vessel.)
Now for the third; spot the two differences:
Give up? OK, they are very small but here they are:
Replacing the nuts and bolts with R-clips to hold the
stantion posts in their housing might seem like semantics and not worth two-man
days of shopping and work with grinders, punches, heavy hammers, socket sets
and some cursing.
And why replace a
bespoke shiny rigging bottle screw with a lashing?
Well, in an emergency we can now rapidly drop the guard rail
and stantion posts with a pull of a clip and the slash of a knife.
Quite useful to say, launch the life rafts or recover a man over board.
Quite useful to say, launch the life rafts or recover a man over board.
So again it’s the little things that are important detail.
Now it’s back to work; I have also discovered that although
the fire pumps work, the hose fitting doesn’t connect properly to the pump. . .
. . probably a bath in paraffin will do
the trick, that’s the connector not me!!
I love reading this blog Richard...thanks for the extra explainations for none sailors like me
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