{"id":16,"date":"2026-08-12T09:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-08-12T09:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sarmc.us\/?p=16"},"modified":"2026-09-04T17:12:36","modified_gmt":"2026-09-04T17:12:36","slug":"so-far","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sarmc.us\/?p=16","title":{"rendered":"Bringing La Sirena back"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Decks&#8230; La Sirena surprisingly has great decks for a 46 year old. For this year I have sealed them with Semco and have used clear caulk to fill noticeable gaps. The deck is solid. I intend to sand and seal fully next year, perhaps in warmer climates.<\/p>\n<p>Engine is a Volvo Penta 2003 model, in very good condition. Currently doing standard service items on it. It took me a while to work out that is is coolant cooled with a seawater heat exhaust exchanger, very cool. Eventually identified the sea-strainer for the raw water, previous owner had put grease in it thinking it was a grease tube! No damage done.<\/p>\n<p>The NX2 wind instrument has disintegrated, likely pecked away from gulls or eagles that frequent harbors and mast in the Pacific Northwest. Will be sourcing a replacement and doing a climb of the mast to replace.<\/p>\n<p>Rudder is solid along with all straps and propeller shaft\/cutlass bearing. Treated with primocon prior to antifouling.<\/p>\n<p>The Dickinson Diesel heater works perfect, I spent some time dismantling it for cleaning of the burner pot &#8230; this is a definite winner for winter.<\/p>\n<p>La Sirena has an extra 75 gallon fuel tank aboard, so with the standard 35 gallon, the capacity is 110 gallons.<\/p>\n<p>The watermaker needs a new membrane, may actually replace with a new system instead of recommissioning it.<\/p>\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-gallery has-nested-images columns-default is-cropped wp-block-gallery-1 is-layout-flex wp-block-gallery-is-layout-flex\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" data-id=\"50\" src=\"https:\/\/sarmc.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/IMG_6973-rotated.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-50\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" data-id=\"49\" src=\"https:\/\/sarmc.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/IMG_6794-rotated.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-49\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" data-id=\"46\" src=\"https:\/\/sarmc.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/IMG_6538-rotated.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-46\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" data-id=\"45\" src=\"https:\/\/sarmc.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/IMG_6528-rotated.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-45\"\/><\/figure>\n<\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Decks&#8230; La Sirena surprisingly has great decks for a 46 year old. For this year I have sealed them with Semco and have used clear caulk to fill noticeable gaps. The deck is solid. I intend to sand and seal fully next year, perhaps in warmer climates. Engine is a Volvo Penta 2003 model, in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":51,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-restoration"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sarmc.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sarmc.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sarmc.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sarmc.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sarmc.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=16"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sarmc.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":81,"href":"https:\/\/sarmc.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16\/revisions\/81"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sarmc.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/51"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sarmc.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=16"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sarmc.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=16"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sarmc.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=16"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}