The last three days we were lazy, aber nur schreibfaul 🙂 Wie geplant wurde an unserer SUMMER fleißig gewerkelt. The most important point at all to the "To Do List": Repair of the radar.

Even right after breakfast Dietmar was traveling, to make the Raymarine technician arrest. Mit Ricardo, the customer service from the local yacht service, Dietmar had found a new friend quite to his taste. From the beginning, they understood each other perfectly and the conversations came from sticks on sticks. As a "Fast Blood Brothers" and good buddy share the two now everything, except wives, Cars, Mobile phones and computers. Since I've been lucky again.

As a result, many long conversations ultimately a comprehensive service package was agreed. As stated in the next two days, the craftsmen of various trades on the SUMMER in the truest sense of the word jack in the hand and Dietmar was as earlier as chief back in his element. Wednesday evening at last appeared the RAYMARINE technician, a very nice and above all experienced ship electronics. This could not be, as expected by Dietmar, pull directly into the mast. So a trouble! Although we were all so sure, that the problem was hiding up there in the radar antenna. And on top of that it would be very handy indeed been, because that part was still under warranty.

But as it turned out, we were all on the completely wrong track. The error was never performed during tests at the port. Therefore, we thought, it is up to the ship motion. Any motion-dependent problem in the antenna, if, as so often at sea, the radar resigned his commission. The fact that we were always connected in port with shore power, while we had tested, we had not taken into account.

So our SUMMER was separated from the "country-outlet" and Dietmar had the task, to consume as much electricity simultaneously, to test our batteries times through its paces. Soon ran beside water maker and boiler, Inverter, Autopilot uvm. even the brand new vacuum cleaner. Our Spanish web neighbor was visibly excited by the German purity delusion and examined as soon as the width.

So were the two gentlemen out, that we had a power problem, because somewhere between the battery and went radar antenna 1 Lost volts. Once the on-board voltage under 12,3 Volt had fallen, arrived at the radar so only 11,3 Volts and the antenna increases from. Now had to be tested and measured in painstaking detailed work each cable and each contact point. It took two hours until they defeated "the leak" arrest made. A contact failure in the first year and a half old fuse panel was the cause. Not externally to identify and in more than 90% of all cases the cause of problems with the on-board electronics. Actually, no wonder, because the salty, moist and warm ocean air oxidizes the exposed contact surfaces and is therefore pure poison for the sensitive components. But as you had the error then found times, He was very easy to fix. A positive side effect was, that we have our ship again to know better and Dietmar got a valuable lesson in measurement technology and dealing with a voltmeter. This will certainly help us in the future very much.

Now you just need the exercise test at sea. But this time, we are sure, das Radar-Problem ist Geschichte 🙂

Very pleased with the excellent service we treated our SUMMER still a wellness treatment. The superstructure waited for some time it, to be once again expertly polished and then sealed with hard wax. Even just thinking of the many corners and edges Dietmar got a bad mood, because that is exactly the Sisyphean task, he loves so very particular. Two days work at 32 ° C in the sun took the polisher to all corners and edges were processed thoroughly and our SUMMER shone again in new splendor. The poor man had to even put a wet towel on his bald head, so as not to burn up in the sun. I did not miss me, then personally bring the teak back into shape and scrub the remnants of polish with plenty of water and a sponge piece by piece. And to finish our machine also got an oil- missed and filter change. Thus was the "SUMMER wellness package" completely.

So were very quick, three days have passed, we had spent in the immediate vicinity of Porto, without seeing the city itself. We want to change tomorrow.