The dinghy is worth chatting about. Evidently, during our dinghy sortie last
week, as the dinghy got bounced around, a conch shell got wedged between the
bottom and the starboard inflatable tube.
As durable as the Hypalon material is, it is the conch that won
out.
The fix was not bad. Reading the directions was a bit of a pain,
as they were translated from Korean to English by a non-native English speaking
person. Smear a little bit of hypalon
repair glue on a 3 inch diameter patch and hold in place over the hole for 10
hours. OK. I did about 15 minutes and that seem to do
the job, along with an over nighter for the final cure. Pumped up the dingy the following day and all
is well. Lesson learned…if you go after
conch, make sure you have a bucket to put it in.
Speaking of conch, getting it and cleaning it are also on my
honey-do list. I added it when Peggy was not looking. Talk to the local folks and they wave their
hand in the general direction of a sand flat saying they, meaning conch, are
all over the place. I’m not sure which
sand flat they are pointing to, but there is only one, and 3 hours of snorkeling
later, conch are not all over the place.
By the way, the dinghy works much
better without a hole in it.
Ray off Sanity came over when I returned to look at my haul
of conch. After getting over the
embarrassment of having an empty bucket, he said come with me tomorrow and I
will show you how it is done. I couldn’t
do worse, so was looking forward to it.
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