The Gasman cometh again, and does great work

Stove Project: Day 9
Returning to Nahani on Tuesday evening, we fall into bed after the flight to Coolangatta, picking up a hire car and driving to Southport Yacht Club, where the boat has been for the last month. Bryan the gasman is due in the morning. He hasn't given us a time, so we set the alarm for 7:30, thinking he might arrive around 8am. We are awoken at 7:15 by a call to say he is at the gate! We fling ourselves out of the bunk and into our clothes and the captain goes to let him in. After a very productive morning of Bryan working with assistance from the crew, we have the regulator mounted on the jungle gym pole at the back, the gas line going down through the deck, through the lazarette, into and through the guest cabin, through the cupboard, behind the fridge, through the bulkhead and along the side of the stove cavity, where it attaches to a tap and the stove hose. It isn't quite as elegant at the stove as we were hoping: we planned to have the tap mounted discreetly at the back, but regulations require it to be at the front. At least it will be obvious if we forget to turn it off. To make room for the tap we have to dismount the stove, change the gimbal mountings and remount (that was the exercise that did the engineer's back last time, but we manage it without further injury).
In the afternoon we go out for an overdue lunch, and buy some polystyrene foam - we are taking the opportunity of increasing the insulation round the fridge while it is demounted. The engineer then spends a rather fruitless afternoon trying to poke the wire for the regulator cut-off switch up from the lazarette through the hollow pole of the jungle gym to the exit hole he has drilled, but with no success. The cook, who is suffering from a badly strained foot, lay down on the job and has an afternoon sleep while he toils. Tomorrow we hope to succeed working on the problem together.