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rhys wrote: On 29 Jul 2005 19:02:47 -0700, "Skip Gundlach" wrote: Skip, finished refitting for many months Good luck, sailor. I've enjoyed your posts and wish you every success in your recovery, not only for your own sake but for the very selfish reason that I'm learning a lot about what it REALLY takes to refit an old boat for permanent residency! All the best. R. Thanks, Rhys, and other PigFans (what else to call folks who like following my adventures?). I'm still expecting quite some time before I can return to the boat, but I'm learning things in the last week or so. The operation went quite as expected, other than that there was less scarring than expected from the original failure during last time's infection, only one of the (two) supposedly dead muscles was, in fact, dead, and they took parts of two (teres major was added, latissimus dorsi was the original plan) others to enable me to lift my arm, in the end. However, due to my previously demonstrated remarkable flexibility, in order to better assure that these attachments succeeded, rather than allowing passive therapy (swinging the arm to keep the joint loose) during the healing time, my arm's supported on/by my side by what amounts to a pillow, the better to keep the new muscles loose. Once healing (6 weeks) is complete, I'll begin therapy, which will include some painful freeing up of what will be - perhaps, even, frozen - a very stiff shoulder. However, in the meantime, as forecast, the pain level is minimal to nonexistant, and I'm having to constantly remind myself not to use the arm, as if feels entirely as though I could. Rehab projects include getting familiar with the navigation software, qualifying for my Ham license (with or without code, on whatever level I can achieve), finishing emptying my home (which has an option contract on it), and finishing selling the other boats left in my fleet. While I rehab, the finishing carpenter is doing that (finishing), and the electrical guy may do some more stuff, too, though he complains that I'm all he's been able to do for the last several months other than fill orders, so this is a welcome break for him. Likely, we'll finish when I get back. Once I'm comfortable using the arm, I'll be back on the boat, finishing out the stuff needed before it goes back in the water. That includes remounting both bilge pumps, resetting and replumbing the aft toilet, finishing plumbing the forward toilet (having done all but the last leg of the hard pipe installation already), reset the shutoff and plumb the head intake/sink outflow for the forward head, set the refrigeration, plumb the forward washdown and filter, power and source the rest of the salt water washdown/galley installation, replumb both of the heads' shower discharges and set the pumps, install the new HF and VHF at the nav, replace the cockpit scupper drain ho$e (2 1/4 x ~20 feet altogether), install the new windlass (see new post), clean and locktite all the setscrews for the new rails, install the side boarding ladder, and perhaps some other stuff. Once it's in the water, there's all the up-the-mast stuff to deal with (the only working light being the foredeck), the recommissioning of the engine (all the pulleys are off, the water pump needs a new bracket, the fuel system needs redoing from the genset removal, it's not been run in - by that time - nearly two years, i.e.), the procurement and mounting of the very-heavy batteries and the fabrication and installation of the appropriately strong box to restrain them, and the sea-trials to prove out that and all the other work which has already taken place. As usual, there will be pictures posted during all this. One other rehab project I forgot to mention is the sorting and beginning of selection of all the pictures (many hundreds of which, preceding the April start of the projects pictures already available, remain untouched) into projects, so that they can be culled into something more manageable than the huge number current. I'm hopeful of coming to some decision about a web page format so that I can begin "The final voyage of SV Tehemana" - the story and pictures, included, of how our boat became "ours" and Flying Pig. When we head out, it will truly be when pigs fly, given all that's happened beforehand! So, here I am, a week out from my surgery, champing at the bit to get back aboard, but being the good patient I am, taking the opportunity, instead, to get the landside stuff attended to. Thanks again for all those watching, and thinking of me/us. We're very grateful for the support. L8R Skip, rehabbing as fast as I can! Morgan 461 #2 SV Flying Pig http://tinyurl.com/384p2 - the vessel as Tehemana, as we bought her "Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover." - Mark Twain |
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skip...damm...
good luck w/the surgery and recoup time ... use the boat for physical therapy.....use it as a tax deduction ;-) |
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Rehab like a champ, Buddy! Meanwhile, I'm working my old butt off in
the New Orleans heat refitting the Princess. Boo-hoo, poor me. I gave in to temptation yesterday and ran the airco while replumbing the head. That was nice! Get better! See ya, Frank |
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