We spent the week at the dock taking care of daily maintenance as well as continuing with our list of repairs. On top of that I also had the oprtunity to reassemble a CTD.
Every year the CTD’s are sent out to be recalibrated. They are taken apart and all the different instruments are sent out separately. Once they are calibrated they are sent back to us and we reassemble the CTD. It was a great experience to learn where all the parts go and what each part actually does. I now have a much better idea how the CTD operates.
One recurring task we have been doing frequently is cleaning out the sea strainer for our air conditioners. Normally the strainer might need to be cleaned once a week but because we have been so close to shore and there is a higher amount of seaweed in the water we have been needing to do it daily. So i’m getting pretty good at that.
This week I have been spending most of my time tracing and fixing freshwater leakes. Two of the leaks were from condensation that accumulated in the air conditioners. But one took a while to figure out. A puddle kept forming in a corner of one of the cabins every couple of hours. We had to cut out some of the walls to figure out where it was coming from. Eventually we figured out one of the water connections for an ice maker in another room. The water was dripping and then running along the inside of the wall all the way to the other cabin. We were able to just tighten a hose clamp on it and it fixed the problem, but now i’ll have to spend the rest of the week putting the walls back together.