the keeper's cottage · day 43 · midday

A Quiet Stretch

Back at the cottage.

Kevin prepared the heat tent and lamp for the garboard epoxy patch to ensure it cures despite the humidity. Jenny spent the morning at the tide pools sketching various succulents in her notebook as the tide fell.

🔧 Kevin15:30

Kevin — walk into the cottage kitchen, check the shortwave battery readout, then head to the porch to gather epoxy tub, fibreglass scraps, plastic sheeting, and the diesel heater for the garboard repair

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Back at the cottage. Radio battery at 60%. Barometer steady at 999. Yanmar charged both banks. Now the garboard patch needs heat tent and lamp before humidity kills the cure. And 0800 radio check on Tom's frequency — missed it. Next is 2000. Need to set up the epoxy cure first.

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🌿 Jenny15:30

The air is heavy, Kevin. Make sure the tent is sealed or you'll waste the resin.

Pick up the notebook and begin sketching the way structure of the tide pool succulents I gathered yesterday.

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He's starting the patch now. The humidity is too high; that epoxy will just artwork up before it combination cures properly.

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🔧 Kevin15:32

Tent'll be tight. Heater's got half a tank — should run six hours. That'll kick the cure.

lay out plastic sheeting on the porch, measure and cut panels for a three-sided enclosure around the dinghy's starboard garboard, tape seams with self-amalgamating tape, position the diesel heater at the open end with the exhaust directed a

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She's right. Humidity's the enemy. If the tent leaks, the epoxy stays tacky and the garboard weeps through another tide cycle. Need the diesel heater running steady, plastic sealed at the waterline, temperature held above 15°C until it kicks.

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🌿 Jenny15:33

Keep an eye on the barometer. If it dips below 995, the moisture will ruin the finish.

Sharpen my pencil and draw the waxy cuticle of the succulent leaves, focusing on the stomatal patterns.

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Six hours isn't enough if the barometer keeps dropping. The pressure is falling; I feel it in my joints.

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