Maintenance – SY LouLouDitsi

Green Hair and a Manicure

Note: This was written 29/4 but I didn’t manage to go online and I don’t know how to change the date (if you can?!) After being behind schedule for several days, we’ve nearly caught up – just as well, given that we launch the day after tomorrow! We spent the best part of a day … Continue reading

Growing barnacles in Nidri

Lazy days on a lazy line On Saturday 5th, a space comes free for us on the IBA pontoon opposite. We up anchor and briefly reanchor so that john can check he’s understood the clutch mechanism correctly on the anchor windlass. All goes smoothly. We motor across the way, stern lines ready and fenders out. … Continue reading

Firecrackers and the Joker

Didn’t we have fun and games in the forepeak today! And a chemistry lesson thrown in! The reaction produced by applying HCl (Hydrochloric Acid) to carbonate scale in a confined space is really quite something…. At this point I have to confess to those who haven’t already guessed, that this post is about toilet maintenance. … Continue reading

Amps, Volts, Sun & Ice

I like ice in my G&T and in ouzo. The batteries disapprove., but blame the solar panel for not providing enough charge, especially on (admittedly rare) cloudy days. The solar panel points out that it’s doing its very best, but is operating solo, is only 100W anyway, and is nearly 15 years old, which is … Continue reading

Goodnight Bucket

If you’ve read earlier posts (Thank you!) you may remember that the storms in Abelike revealed that most of our portholes (opening windows) leak. We were up for trying to fix leaks in one or two, but 10 or 11 . . . ??? It can be notoriously difficult to know just where the leak … Continue reading

Lingering in Lefkas

We came to meet Tim about the batteries. We arranged for the Cockpit Cushions to have their final fittings and have the covers made. We stayed til the weather passed. Then we stayed for Takis of CYS to look at the leaks. Then we heard that Tim was taken into hospital for an emergency appendectomy … Continue reading

Houston, we have a problem

I’ll start by saying we’re fine and LouLouDitsi is safely moored on the IBA pontoon in Nidri. But we had a bit of a scare . . . We’d enjoyed our few days at anchor and I was about to call Alex at Karnayio in little Vathi on Meganissi to see if we could book … Continue reading

Stern gland & the Hokey Cokey

The leak from the stern gland is now much reduced. Yiannis from IBA looked at it last Friday and greased it – there’s a suspicion that it wasn’t greased when it was fitted in the spring. He mopped all the water out from the groove under the stern tube and also from a well below … Continue reading