I didn't set out sailing to Oak Bay Marina. In fact the thought hadn't crossed my mind. What I intended to do was fix my broken clutch cable. Yes, the very same cable I had replaced by Gartside Marine back in the Spring. That didn't last long.

I had borrowed a die from Tom and managed to extend the short length of thread on the end of the cable where it attaches to the 'ball joint' on the Transmission 'operation lever'. In fact, I don't have a ball joint on my operation Lever. I have a brass slug which passes through a hole in the lever. This slug had become seized and that's what ultimately snapped the cable.

So, I extended the thread, screwed on the slug and applied a liberal amount of grease. I'll have to keep checking it to make sure it doesn't seize again. All in all though, I was happy to save $70 on a new cable.

After fixing the cable, I started the mighty Yanmar and tested the shifter. It worked. Yay. So I cast off my mooring lines and went for a bit of an about the bay cruise. Stopping in the middle of Cadboro Bay and drifting about for a while, I decided on sailing to Oak Bay Marina. It was around 16:30 by this time and I thought maybe Barnucka would still be working on his Trimaran, Inkla. 

The long and the short of it was, he wasn't there. So I put Trouper 2 in gear and steamed back to Cadboro Bay under running and steaming lights.

Next week, I'll endeavor to get the sails up. 

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Yanmar clutch cable connection