After a lazy morning with a bacon and eggs with bread breakfast I decided to make it another quiet day. I dinghied out to the start line of the Powerade Dinghy Regatta to get some pictures and when I returned I started the long-postponed task of adjusting the steering/power bar of the outboard and cleaning the engine along with adjusting the carburetor idle. There’s a problem with the tiller arm and I downloaded the full shop manual from the internet, reading a section about the “trim tab” with great interest. I needed a lot of upper body force to keep the engine from making the dinghy turn a sharp right turn, I thought that was normal but it turns out that the sacrificial Zinc doubles as a trim tab which can be used to adjust the side forces on the tiller!
I opted to stay aboard tonight, cooking some potatoes with sauces for dinner and making an improvised and temporary dinghy lift as the sun set over the lagoon.
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