Some parts of Florida are beginning to re-opened even though there is still a threat from Covid-19, but Everything is still locked down on the University of Miami campus for now. Which has been good. I’m able to stay pretty isolated the way things are. My only contacts are Don the chief engineer and occasionally Denis the marine tech.
Don and I finished a few projects together this week. We replaced a coupling for our fire pump to its motor called a love joy. It turned into a tricky project because everything was seized up which made it very difficult to take apart. Then it was tricky to get back together because we had to line up the motor’s shaft perfectly with the pump’s shaft. It was pretty difficult to get it perfect but we managed to in the end. We had another tricky task we took on. We replaced the main aft door gasket which was difficult because it has to be glued in place perfectly, then needs to seal totally with no gaps around any of the edges. Once we finished that we went around and tested all the bilge alarms. We only had a problem with one getting stuck on but we were able to free it up. As I was looking closer at the alarm panel I noticed one of the voltage regulators had burt. It hadn’t affected our bilge alarm so we will test the smoke alarm system next and order a new regulator unit to replace the old one.
