New Zealand 2003 Job Jar

New Zealand 2003 projects before leaving for Fiji

• Add bowsprit stainless
• Add fridge hinges
• Adjust engine idle speed
• Adjust valves
• Anchor snubber anti-chafe stainless installed
• Australian consulate - get tourist visa information
• Battery for salinity tester
• Bottom paint
• Build seat back to keep Nav seat cushion from sliding forward
• Buy new jack lines
• Buy sealant
• Buy anchor ball
• Buy blank video tapes
• Buy Celestial Nav update book
• Buy charts for Fiji, New Caledonia, and Vanuatu
• Buy clevis pin for gate and fix gate
• Buy flares, etc update
• Buy flat fender
• Buy floating dinghy towing line
• Buy Lazarette locks
• Buy new 3-point tether
• Buy new galley bulb + spares
• Buy new galley rug
• Buy new gas can - outboard and have cover made
• Buy new outboard
• Buy new outboard motor lifting harness
• Buy new outboard spares
• Buy new pressure gauge for dink
• Buy oil Buy oil absorb pads
• Buy Spectra filters
• Buy 2 Spectra watermaker pickling solution and hose
• Buy spray air for computer keyboard
• Buy yanmar (cooling water hoses, 5 gates belts, 2 oil filters)
• Cancel Auto insurance
• Cancel Gym memberships
• Cancel storage locker
• Car fender fixed, cut and polished
• Check all boat lights - replace bow lights
• Clean anchor locker doors, put up canvas covers
• Clean anti-siphon valves
• Clean BBQ
• Clean bilge
• Clean fuel tank
• Clean Lazarette
• Clean out chart table
• Clean out fridge
• Clean rugs
• Clean under grates, clean out drains, re-wire tie grates
• Close ASB bank account
• Close Sailors Corner, marine store, account
• Computer locker latch
• Cotter pin lifelines
• Empty storage unit
• Equalize / maintain batteries
• Euromarine, buy Aqua Signal 25 port bow
• Lofrans spares
• Fill propane tanks
• Fix head door from banging
• Fix latch on foul weather gear locker
• Fix latch on oven
• Fix leaking head faucet
• Fix solar panel cover plate
• Hang new Maori print in head
• Have new boat survey done and send to insurance broker
• Hinges/catch on engine control panel
• Inspect all halyards/lines/rig
• Inspect dive tank, bc, reg - pick up
• Inspect jib
• Inspect MOM
• Install light outlet in cockpit
• Install telephone/TV receptacle
• Inventory entire  boat
• Inventory and clean all cupboards
• Inventory flags - buy new if required
• Inventory spares in quarterberth
• Lube engine stop
• Lube jib bag
• Lube main sail track and trisail track
• Lube prop
• Lube thru-hulls
• Lube winch handles
• Lube winches
• Mailing List
• Make canvas cover for autopilot
• Make reservations at marina in Australia
• Malaria meds
• Move backstay flag halyard so riding sail can be used
• New control lines for the monitor
• New screws for ladder
• Order new meds for medical kit, with malarone for malaria
• Order Seven Seas Newsletters on CD
• Organize manuals
• Provision
• Put away Christmas decorations
• Put Lee clothes back up
• Add seizing wire on monitor control line block
• Rebed deck prisms
• Rebuild alternator
• Rebuild head pump/hoses & replace intake hose
• Receive final canvas work from Boat Cover Company
• Re-organize and inventory books
• Repair dingy
• Replace anchor snubber
• Replace engine control panel
• Replace engine fresh water cooling hoses
• Replace engine intake hoses
• Replace Espar glow plug/filter
• Replace fridge gasket
• Replace FWD cabin lights breaker
• Replace head seat
• Replace hot water heater
• Replace jerry jug boards
• Replace line that holds monitor control line block to back stay
• Replace screens and trim in v-berth hatch screens, and varnish
• Replumb sink drain / add sink pumpout
• Reseal cockpit autopilot control head
• Sand down v-berth door, varnish
• Screw down hatch and lube slides
• Sell Car
• Service fire extinguishers
• Settee locker hinges/latches
• Sew: new settee & nav station covers, repair lee clothes, anchor locker covers
• Sewing machine serviced
• Ship items home/leave in NZ
• Snap shackles for workout bar
• Swap anchor chain - end for end and re-mark
• Tape and caulk handrail and eyebrow
• Un-pickle watermaker
• Upgrade to Pactor 3
• Vacuum pack, stow varnish materials
• Varnish new v-verth screens & quarterberth bench back
• Waterproof companionway hatch
• Waterproof lazerette doors
• Wax hull
• Wax interior surfaces of boat
• Windlass cover maintenance

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