well we had a bit of rain off and on in the morning but then the sun came out around 9am and amazingly in spite of the weather forecast stayed out! i got started by doing batch of primer and i did a coat on the stern hull segment and transom and i was able to do almost the full port side as well. the hardest part was mixing the stuff fortunately aimee had got a drill mixer attachment as the...
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well today we got off to a bit of a slow start. it was nice to have the yard quite and catch up on email and aimee even did her yoga. but alas just as we where getting ready to get going around 9am it started raining. the good news was i got a few blog updates kicked out and did some more work on this new contract opportunity tim found while we waited for the rain to subside. the rain paused...
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so today started with some guys coming back asking if we where ready to be sanded yet. i was concerned we where going to be getting in trouble for taking so long so i kind of brushed them off. i would find out later the yard manager was off for carnival and they where just looking for something to do. i spent the first half day grinding and aimee sanded. we where both pretty overwhelmed and...
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so last night was hell. we woke up at midnight or so covered with mosi bites. i turned on the light and i could see tons of mosis flying around the cabin we had all the screens in but apparently these buggers are small enough to get in. we closed all the hatches making it even hotter and maxed the fan. i could not sleep so i got the electric fly swatter and started swatting. it was very...
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so today i decided to tackle the lower rudder bearing first. primarily because everything else was overwhelming. if you recall i had to fix this in kupang underwater, that was fun! at that pint i learned that the brass part had been replaced with a stainless part. some months later this part finally made it out to me and i have been caring it around for a year or two. aimee finally got the...
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today we awoke to hear that today was an official “half day holiday” in honor of the Grenadian woman winning a gold medal in the olympics. of course we where scheduled to come out of the water at 1300 and the half day “off” was the afternoon. fortunately we had always planned to head around to the yard first thing so we head this announcement as we where heading into...
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