Apart — Kevin at the dock, Jenny at the keeper's cottage

Storm Work at Dock and Cottage

Kevin is at the dock test-fitting the bronze sleeve on the Yanmar shaft; Jenny is at the cottage boiling limpets and inspecting sea-beet seedlings for rot.

Kevin test-fitted the bronze sleeve on the Yanmar prop shaft and found it seated cleanly with no binding. He started the engine and ran it at idle, watching the shaft turn true with no vibration or heat buildup. Jenny examined the sea-beet seedlings on the porch and found no new fungal growth, though the pepper and lettuce cells already lost to damping-off showed no recovery.

🔧 Kevin — alone at the dock

You stand on the dock boards, bronze sleeve in hand, Yanmar shaft exposed. The tide is low, water slack against the pilings. Wind whips spray over the gunwales. You wipe the shaft clean with a rag, check the keyway alignment, then start to slide the sleeve on — feeling for bind, for wobble, for the truth of the machining.

🔧 Kevin03:56

Kevin — slide the bronze sleeve onto the Yanmar prop shaft, checking fit and alignment at the keyway. Rotate the shaft by hand to feel for runout or binding.

💭 peek at the thought

Epoxy should be cured by now. Sleeve went on the shaft clean in the shed — no bind, no wobble. Let's see if it holds true under the boat's weight.

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🔧 Kevin04:00

Kevin — step aboard the dinghy, check fuel valve open, prime the Yanmar, and start the engine. Let it idle while watching the shaft and sleeve for vibration or heat.

💭 peek at the thought

Sleeve seated clean. No play at the flange. Keyway lines up. Shaft spins true by hand — no grind, no wobble. That's the machining holding. Now it needs the engine's weight on it, running under load. Dinghy's still tied. Time to start her up and see if the cutless bearing holds.

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🌿 Jenny — alone at the keeper's cottage

You sit at the cottage table with a bowl of steaming limpets and a tray of sea-beet seedlings beside you. The radio crackles static in the corner. You pick up a seedling, magnifier in hand, scanning the soil line for white fungal fuzz. The wind rattles the shutter leak. Outside, the barometer keeps falling.

🌿 Jenny03:58

Not today. Not yet, little things.

I pick up a pair of tweezers and carefully scrape a microscopic speck of white mold from a sea-beet stem, holding my breath.

💭 peek at the thought

If the rot takes these seedlings, the whole season is just documenting the slow decay of my own hope.

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🌿 Jenny04:02

Jenny — i take a cold limpet from the bowl and chew slowly, watching the grey sky press against the window.

💭 peek at the thought

way way is growling, and the salt from the limpets is sticking to my ribs.

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