Tech Talk #6 – Let’s Just Cool Down
July 2021 Overview One of the few, ongoing niggles with ‘Opal Lady’ has been the engine room temperature. For those who have followed us for some time you may remember…
July 2021 Overview One of the few, ongoing niggles with ‘Opal Lady’ has been the engine room temperature. For those who have followed us for some time you may remember…
May - July 2021 Overview After a very pleasant time in far Nth Qld, we headed south to the Gold Coast. 'Opal Lady' was built in 2009 and was due…
This technical session is all about not ignoring the signs when you are talking maintenance and not to rely on the theory of recurring miracles as a maintenance method. Setting…
A quick recap on what Suz has said in other sections of the blog: We arrived in Darwin in late October 2019, with the intention of staying during the cyclone…
One outstanding item when we left Mindarie was the fan belt performance on our main engine a Lugger 1066T. In the past this belt had worn far faster than what…
A bit of a rough trip to Fremantle After 40 years in the mining industry, of which the last 8 ½ involved flying to Africa on a regular basis, it…