V and A waterfront marina, Cape Town SA

Alas, the Admiral left for London on Tuesday and I am busy getting the boat ready to leave at the end of the month. I installed anew 26" TV in the aft cabin and on Wednesday numerous contractors showed up. The guy from Climma brought over a new PCB for the salon air conditioner which was burned up in the voltage spike last week. It was easily fitted and the A/C now is working  well. I decided to get the fuel tank cleaned and all the fuel polished and it was just as well I did as the fuel at the bottom of the tank was contaminated with water and algae growth and this treatment was long overdue. The process took most of the day and I would strongly recommend Western Cape Diesel Technology and Cedric Cooper very strongly. Last but by no means least the riggers came by to do a free mast and standing rigging check prior to departure. All was well with the rig except for the block on one of the external halyards on the mizzen that was easily replaced. The down side was that they managed to damage my starboard electric primary winch by getting an override and destroying the self tailer. Of course no parts are available in SA, but fortunately Ian has sourced and purchased them in the UK and will bring them out at the weekend.

Also, one of the freezers is not working well. A refer tech came by yesterday and spent an hour or so yesterday but did not resolve the problem and returned today and spent 5 hours and hopefully it's fixed. Time will tell. So it's been been 3 steps forwards and 2 steps back but i'm sure all will resolve itself by next week. 

before photo of rudder. Heavy growth and  not much anode left. No blisters though

prop was in sorry shape. much better now

sample of fuel from the bottom of the tank

under surface of the keel. All growth was removed and the keel ground down to bare metal and then primed and epoxied prior to bottom paint

crud at the bottom of the tank. Problem waiting to happen

more crud. All clean now