Andrew_Fanner
Well-Known Member
A bit self indulgent, but we all love our boats, especially hen new to us.
Well, our new toy arrived at Chertsey Meads on 8/6 and we arrived a day later.
The trusty crew soon had her looking a bit better. No slime, crud or colonies of mussels.
We spent Sunday 10/6 scraping the hull, the crew went home that evening leaving me to soldier on. My birthday present to me on 11/6 was to prime the area to be antifouled.
Jedi looks rather better clean and antifouled.
Of course, I should have Polyprepped the topsides before antifouling but hey, what's another coat between friends? The issues with poor water flow seem to have been related to mussel growth over the intakes. This is tickover just after startup. Smokin'
Beleive it or not there was a drain plug between the two anodes. The plug was held in with a corroded screw, I'm glad I didn't try the sea trip. We removed the plug and glassed over the hole. But why fit one on a 32' boat anyway? Old name stickers removed and the area made good.
By Friday afternoon I was totally wasted. Up between 06:00 and 07:00 and working until it got dark each day. Falling into "bad company" on Thursday evening after a couple of beers made Friday very rough indeed. Hull polished, fourth go of teak dressing into the bathing platform (it wants more), antifouling on third coat in some areas and ready to lift back into the water.
A nervewracking experience when you recall that boats can get dropped.
I love this view.
Safely in.
The journey home.
Back to MTYC after possibly the hardest week's boat activity I have ever done. Seems to have been worth it though We spent the weekend showing visitors about and the only work I did was to make the oil show on the dipstick for the S/H gearbox.
My wife's favourite picture so far.
Well, our new toy arrived at Chertsey Meads on 8/6 and we arrived a day later.
The trusty crew soon had her looking a bit better. No slime, crud or colonies of mussels.
We spent Sunday 10/6 scraping the hull, the crew went home that evening leaving me to soldier on. My birthday present to me on 11/6 was to prime the area to be antifouled.
Jedi looks rather better clean and antifouled.
Of course, I should have Polyprepped the topsides before antifouling but hey, what's another coat between friends? The issues with poor water flow seem to have been related to mussel growth over the intakes. This is tickover just after startup. Smokin'
Beleive it or not there was a drain plug between the two anodes. The plug was held in with a corroded screw, I'm glad I didn't try the sea trip. We removed the plug and glassed over the hole. But why fit one on a 32' boat anyway? Old name stickers removed and the area made good.
By Friday afternoon I was totally wasted. Up between 06:00 and 07:00 and working until it got dark each day. Falling into "bad company" on Thursday evening after a couple of beers made Friday very rough indeed. Hull polished, fourth go of teak dressing into the bathing platform (it wants more), antifouling on third coat in some areas and ready to lift back into the water.
A nervewracking experience when you recall that boats can get dropped.
I love this view.
Safely in.
The journey home.
Back to MTYC after possibly the hardest week's boat activity I have ever done. Seems to have been worth it though
We spent the weekend showing visitors about and the only work I did was to make the oil show on the dipstick for the S/H gearbox.
My wife's favourite picture so far.
