Dear Rajoo,
Following your call yesterday. Many thanks for the verbal approval on the toilet parts. If you could please send me the email on this, that would be great. I also attach a quote for 100 spare light bulbs too, could you kindly approve these too.
Seals—Basically after removing the shafts, the shaft seals were seen to be beyond safe limits to refit and thus Putra asked me to look into ordering new 2 x complete shaft seals and 1 x spare shaft seal(he had one spare on board so only needed one). I tried the UK for these but the lead time would have meant missing launch date. Thus I ordered from the local supplier of the same product but only yesterday after these had arrived did I know the cost of these and only yesterday did I get the invoice. These seals are the main seals that prevents the yacht from sinking where the shaft goes through the hull and thus my main priority was to make sure we could get these and knowing that these are imperative to the safety of the vessel the costs were second priority(without these the yacht could not go in the water). I have attached the quote for these now and ask if you can please approve this. My apologies that we did not send this sooner but acting in the best interests of the yacht and owner, mine and Putras priority was to make sure we could get these vital parts for meeting the launch date target.
We have also got to replace the rudder seals x 4 and two spacer plates on the rudder stocks too. These I am chasing too and should have costs and lead time later today.
I have attached some pictures too so you can see the seals needed and I believe Putra has sent you pictures of the old damaged seals.
I also should take this chance to mention that Putra has been outstanding during this works project and should be commended for his professionalism with working with us as a team to ensure all is being done that should be done.
On a another note, the teak job is almost completed now and the final touches are being done to this.
If you can please let me know at your soonest as we have people on standby now till we know we can continue.