This is Tommy helping me out with some boat projects. He changed the color of his mane from blond to purple.

We welded some small washers onto pins that kept on backing out on the manual bilge pump. You might notice the UV degradation of the bilge pump diaphragm it is so harsh here this happens in about 6 months… There seems to have been lots of gremlins messing around in the boatshed with lots of faults that take ages to problem solve. I have been saving short small easy projects so I can do one of those when I get frustrated with the larger issues.

While the welder was out I reafixed my diver to the metal post the sculpture was given to me by Ian (ex Rothera) and made by Al Homer (ex Rothera)

We run a system between Matt and I that one person is on maintenance duty for a week and the other does the on the water single boat operations. If there are two boats than both of us are on the water. This week Matt is on duty and tonight was the second fishing boat of the season and this week that came in for inspection. Both have arrived just before sunset and left in the dark on their way to fishing grounds – time being money for them.