{"id":14297,"date":"2010-11-16T00:01:38","date_gmt":"2010-11-16T05:01:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/setsail.com\/?p=14297"},"modified":"2010-11-15T12:52:26","modified_gmt":"2010-11-15T17:52:26","slug":"pre-departure-check","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/setsail.com\/pre-departure-check\/","title":{"rendered":"Pre Departure Check"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"display: block; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;\" title=\"ARC-Prep-722.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/setsail.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/ARC-Prep-722.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"ARC-Prep-722.jpg\" width=\"576\" height=\"346\" \/><\/p>\n<p>In pre FPB days it would take us two or three days of work to check the sails, rig, rigging, engine, and systems. With <em>Wind Horse<\/em> this is down to half a day. We started in the engine room yesterday, got interrupted, and finished this morning.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Shown above is the first step, checking all of the bolts associated with the steering system. The grimace is a part of a loud &#8220;arghhh&#8221;, a necessary aspect of tightening &#8211; or checking &#8211; these connections. The bolts include:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Tiller arms<\/li>\n<li>Drag link<\/li>\n<li>Hydraulic cylinder bases<\/li>\n<li>Piston clevis lock nut<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>All of the bolts were tight, except one of the four on the port cylinder base which took half a turn.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"display: block; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;\" title=\"Eng-rm-check-102.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/setsail.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/Eng-rm-check-102.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Eng-rm-check-102.jpg\" width=\"576\" height=\"424\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Next the salt water pump impellers are checked. They are both fine.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"display: block; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;\" title=\"Eng-rm-check-109.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/setsail.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/Eng-rm-check-109.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Eng-rm-check-109.jpg\" width=\"306\" height=\"576\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Then the alternator belts, idler pulleys, tensioners, and alternator mounting bolt. All OK.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"display: block; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;\" title=\"Eng-rm-check-106.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/setsail.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/Eng-rm-check-106.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Eng-rm-check-106.jpg\" width=\"576\" height=\"403\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The final item with tools are the CV axle bolts.<\/p>\n<p>In addition:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Check oil and coolant (tranny and engines)<\/li>\n<li>Inspect hydraulic system<\/li>\n<li>Tie down all loose gear<\/li>\n<li>Clean salt water strainers<\/li>\n<li>Clean watermaker membranes and replace their raw water filter<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The rest involves getting the deck and emergency gear ready which we will cover in another blog.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In pre FPB days it would take us two or three days of work to check the sails, rig, rigging, <a class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/setsail.com\/pre-departure-check\/\">&#8230;Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14297","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dashew-blog"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/setsail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14297"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/setsail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/setsail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/setsail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/setsail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14297"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/setsail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14297\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/setsail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14297"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/setsail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14297"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/setsail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14297"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}