Oh, the joys of old boats. In this episode, we are in the midst of last minute preparations for an Atlantic crossing including replacing the bolts on our chainplates. We had noticed slight movement in the chainplate on the port side since Shayne had put a bead of sika flex around the deck join.
We now need to pull the chainplate apart to investigate why the chainplates are moving. The bolts used are not correct and there is a reason why we are experiencing trouble. Of course in the process of looking more closely at what is going on we find out more than we want to when we see that the bulkheads are rotten in places. This is quite a technical episode as we share the problems and our solutions in order to get Paikea ready for a trans Atlantic crossing.
