Rigging Survey and more

Tuesday morning we had a rigging survey done (mostly for insurance purposes).  All was good except for one fitting on the inner forestay, which had a small crack.  Oh, and our halyards are a little old, but we had planned on replacing them anyway.  This was one of the surveyors checking things out:

Mike worked more on Abake this week than at work, starting with cleaning up the cabin a little and putting the table in.  He picked up the custom-made brackets for the Kubota so he could mount the alternator and the refrigeration compressor.  And then he started mounting the brackets and is still fitting them (lining up belts, etc.).  

He also cut out the ceiling for the nav station and re-installed that.  Then he removed the fiddle and the formica on the nav station and replaced it with new (brighter) formica:

 

We also cleaned the refrigeration tub and installed the brackets and mounted the cold plate.  Hooray!  We're one step closer to having a refrigerator!!!  Oh, and a shout out again to Lison Life, for teaching us about Bar Keepers Friend (oxalic acid) -- it removed red stains from the tub that nothing else was able to remove.

Finally, since it was very calm on Sunday (no waves), Mike went up the mast (first time on Abake!) to check out the fittings for the running backstays.  They're too short and we want to replace them.  The surveyor mentioned that we could use Spectra, but no decision has been made.