Located a local supplier of the rubrail for Newports – Seals Spars & Rigging. Ordered a new one but it’s going to take over a month to get done.
Decided on windows
After much debate on whether we should try to restore original (corroded) windows, go for simple thru-bolted acrylic panels, or buy a new set, we decided to go with a new set. Found a company, Mark Plastics, that manufactured windows for Capital Yachts (Newport 30s). Nadya reused old holiday wrapping paper to create templates and make measurements and I stopped by USPS this morning to mail those over.
Breaking Bank
2nd life for the fuel tank
Fun story: posted the fuel tank for sale on Craigslist and the guy who got it bought it for his 1973 Newport 30 mk 2.
What are the odds!?!
With just a few dozen Newport 30 boats in SF Bay Area, when one of them had a tank removed another one was in need of a tank.
Definitely a wrinkle in space-time continuum.
Fighting with CNC
Was ready to make test backing plates for Marelon seacocks this morning. Spent several hours trying to make CNC ShopBot Alpha at SF TechShop cooperate with my tool paths from Fusion360. No luck so far – will have to troubleshoot some other day.
Goodbye, boom
Anticipation
San Francisco
Measuring
Fixing the radio
The VHF is not working too well as the antenna cable was clipped. With help of my friend, Andrey, we’ve set up a new antenna and hocked it up to the radio. After multiple times of trying to check it on channel 9, we asked on channel 16 and got yelled at by the Coast Guard 🙂
