After a busy last week getting the engines out, it has slowed down this week. We have had to pump out slop from the bilges, clean them with the pressure washer, get them all dry, and put paint in the bilges before the new, clean, red engines go in. This mostly took up the beginning of the week along with some crane ops and moving/removing various items ranging from engine room parts to tools and materials. The ship is a mess with so many projects and equipment being used. Alesha and I have many side quests from Denis to install the wifi, run the POSMV wires and set up that system, run the wires for the starboard and port side cameras, reconstruct the CTD, and make new terminations on the 3-2-2 wire. We also have side quests from Jon to finish the A/C installation in Cabin 9, make a shelf, and insulate some more A/C piping. The main mission of course right now is figuring out how to get the new engines at around 4,500 lbs onto the ship and into the engine room cleanly and safely. Then, to repower and run controls to all of the steering stations onboard.
In the latter part of this week, I worked on making some holes in the overheads to run RJ45 wire to the two different wifi modems. I also had to mount the modems and figure out where to put the relay boxes for easier maintenance later on.