Geoff Schultz wrote in
:

Where were they when it failed?



Just off Charleston.

Two errors found. It's fixed.

Skip left the bike pump on the manual system and the pressure bled off
through the bike pump. The other problem was the autopilot hydraulic pump
motor was loose from the cylinder, allowing the magic lotion hydraulics
runs on to escape. All hydraulics runs on magic lotion which must not
bleed out or the hydraulic objects dies....like a dog. He found some bolts
had worked loose holding the pump onto the cylinder.

It's all working, again, now, but the weather has settled over Charleston
so they'll wait for a better weather window before setting the sea and
anchor detail again. It's raining all day here. You can SEE my lawn
growing!

Report Complete.........
Larry


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so radiomen know where to tear the paper off over the trash can.)