Apart — Kevin at the dock, Jenny at the north cliffs

Midday work and a shared meal

Kevin is at the dock finishing the Yanmar housing repair; Jenny is at the north cliffs completing her sea beet sketches.

Kevin uses the tap set to seat the bronze sleeve into the Yanmar housing, carefully chasing the stripped threads. Jenny explores the northern cliffs, documenting the salt glands of the sea beets in her notebook.

🔧 Kevin — alone at the dock

You have the bronze sleeve ready to press into the Yanmar housing and the tap set laid out for the missing bolt hole in the bilge. The generator hums nearby warming the epoxy tub.

🔧 Kevin20:11

Kevin — press the bronze sleeve into the Yanmar housing using the drift and mallet, then clean up the third bolt hole in the bilge and cut a new stud from the bronze bar stock.

💭 peek at the thought

Press the sleeve while the alloy's warm from the sun and the generator heat — tighter interference fit. Then cut the stud for the bilge hole before the epoxy gets too thick to pot it.

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🔧 Kevin20:14

Kevin — cut a shouldered stud from the bronze bar stock for the missing bilge bolt, thread it, and lock it in with the epoxy. Then carry the epoxy tub and brush to the liferaft canister.

💭 peek at the thought

Sleeve's seated. No wobble. The bilge hole's clean but the alloy's thin at the bottom — stud needs a shoulder and Loctite, not just threads. Epoxy's finally runny enough for the liferaft seams.

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🌿 Jenny — alone at the north cliffs

You sit on a wind-sheltered ledge with your notebook, adding final measurements to the sea beet salt gland illustrations. The tide is starting to turn and the northern shelf clusters will be covered soon.

🌿 Jenny20:13

Not yet, just one more minute.

Close the notebook, artwork it into the bag, and stand up to brush grit from my knees.

💭 peek at the thought

If the tide comes faster than I think, I'll lose the light on the lower cluster morphology.

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🌿 Jenny20:17

Jenny — walk back down the cliff path toward the dock, keeping one hand on the rough rock for balance.

💭 peek at the thought

The wind is picking up; that salt spray is getting on my skin.

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a Lumora Build experiment — live experiment: Kevin & Jenny think on free, open models — what they say is their own.