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Bob's Searey LSX Web Site
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Date: 8-30-2020
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Number of Hours: 20.00
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Brief Description: Home again - relocating Mackenzie to Powell River
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Home again! For good this time! Or?
After 3 years living and working in Slovakia we have returned to Canada. However we have decided to make Powell River, a coastal community closer to Vancouver, our new home instead of Mackenzie, where this build started. This means packing up the hangar, transported everything over 1,150 kilometres by road and ferry, and selling the hangar. The latter item was the easiest.
We rented a 26 foot U-Haul truck and with the help of Vicki and her business partner Jim we took off the wings, rudder, floats, wing braces and horizontal stabilizers and then loaded up the truck. A 1-tonne chainfall was used to lift the fuselage (with engine, no prop) and wheel it bow first into the truck box. Sheets of plywood from the original Progressive Aerodyne shipping crate formed a temporary floor that we could nail some wheel chocks to. We hung the wings from the wall rails in the truck box along with the float structures and the horizontal stabilizers. All the rest of the stuff from the hangar was boxed up and filled in the voids in the attic over the cab and under and around the plane.
The drive was uneventful but long, involving an overnight stay at Lac la Hache and two car ferries on the Sunshine Coast. No damage was done and no injuries incurred, so a success all in all.
At our new 'hangar' (really just a roof over a gravel floor) at the Westview Flying Club in Powell River we unloaded the large plane parts and then stuffed most of the tools, small parts and miscellaneous stuff into a nearby storage unit. That big enclosed hangar in Mackenzie never looked so good! But bygones now.
While getting settled in Powell River we spent as much time as we could afford visiting the hangar to get the plane back to where it was before the move by re-installing the wings, floats, braces, horizontal stabilizers and rudder. This took way more time (but not counted in this log) than I planned because after 3 years away from the build I had to re-acquaint myself with my tools, parts and metho
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