yoda
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What have you started and now regret as the season approaches? Mine is the Galley work top for which the quotes are almost beyond belief. Now to find some ply/formica laminate
Yoda
Yoda
Jobs you regret starting
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NUTMEG
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Polishing my two Wykham-Martin furling drums. A right s*d to avoid scratches, look rubbish and were better in 'weathered bronze', :-(
ProDave
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Painting the duck board in my cockpit.
2 days later the varnish is still tacky.
I've even brought it inside in the warm to dry it and a day later, it's still tacky, but a bit less so.
An old tin of varnish that must have "gone off"
I might be launching without the duck board if it doesn't dry eventually, then pondering what to strip it off with to start again.
But I still haven't anti fouled yet. It's snowing just now. I really really need some better weather. At least I launch from the slipway so don't have the looming crane in date to bother me, but might end up launching late if this weather doesn't improve.
2 days later the varnish is still tacky.
I've even brought it inside in the warm to dry it and a day later, it's still tacky, but a bit less so.
An old tin of varnish that must have "gone off"
I might be launching without the duck board if it doesn't dry eventually, then pondering what to strip it off with to start again.
But I still haven't anti fouled yet. It's snowing just now. I really really need some better weather. At least I launch from the slipway so don't have the looming crane in date to bother me, but might end up launching late if this weather doesn't improve.
Athene V30
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Removing the '70s shag pile from the deck head in the forecabin and the grotty plywood from the deckhead in the salon.
Oh no I did that last winter and lived with it over the summer! Better go sailing than doing housekeeping.
Oh no I did that last winter and lived with it over the summer! Better go sailing than doing housekeeping.
oldbilbo
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Why is it, on saily boats, more than 95% of the work involves engines and 'lecky....?
PhillM
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Should have stuck with the rot under the mast and new standing rigging.
Trying to get a new 2nd hand engine led to nothing but trouble / cost.
Ended up with new Beta 14, new engine bed, new, well everything and a 10k bill I wasn't looking for.
No complaints re the team but have to say I may have bitten off more than I wanted to chew.
Trying to get a new 2nd hand engine led to nothing but trouble / cost.
Ended up with new Beta 14, new engine bed, new, well everything and a 10k bill I wasn't looking for.
No complaints re the team but have to say I may have bitten off more than I wanted to chew.
VicS
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Taking out the old Ball Head toilet and glassing over the old outlet
Hauled the boat out early in 2011... did not get round to starting the job until there was not time to finish before winter .
Did not get back to it during the fine weather before Easter last year. Lousy weather after Easter so did not get it done in time for the annual rally. Lost interest after that.
Now lousy weather so far this year ....... still got a 2½" diameter hole in the bottom awaiting some decent weather to glass over.
was hoping to sell the boat this year ..... but who'd buy a boat with a whacking great hole in the bottom.
Car now needs work before MOT so had to SORN that.
Hauled the boat out early in 2011... did not get round to starting the job until there was not time to finish before winter .
Did not get back to it during the fine weather before Easter last year. Lousy weather after Easter so did not get it done in time for the annual rally. Lost interest after that.
Now lousy weather so far this year ....... still got a 2½" diameter hole in the bottom awaiting some decent weather to glass over.
was hoping to sell the boat this year ..... but who'd buy a boat with a whacking great hole in the bottom.
Car now needs work before MOT so had to SORN that.
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prv
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Why "before winter"? I start each refit period just after New Year, and work solidly through January, February, March, and the beginning of April.
Pete
lustyd
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I'm halfway through my "season" with a weekend liftout planned for August. No regrets just yet although I've not been sailing as much this winter as I'd have liked due to work, does that count?
Phoenix of Hamble
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varnishing.
Enough said.
Enough said.
lustyd
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Paint will fix all that nonsense in a jiffy...
Phoenix of Hamble
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Oh.... did I mention all the paint that some plonker had applied that I had to remove as part of the prep......
VicS
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Oh No
Haul out in September, scrub bottom maybe. Remove stuff thats going home for washing, varnishing or storage. Lower mast,and put covers over.
Check it still there sometime around Xmas new year.
Start fitting out after Easter to launch in time for Spr Bank Hol.
lustyd
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Oh.... did I mention all the paint that some plonker had applied that I had to remove as part of the prep......
making a rod for your own back...
prv
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You can hardly complain that it's still got an 'ole in the bottom then, can you?
I don't intend to continue with three or four months of refit indefinitely, by the way. Just that it seems to take about three years after buying the boat to do all the jobs that spring to mind when I first look round
. Kindred Spirit was "finished" after three winters, so if we were keeping her it would just be routine maintenance now, not refit. But, errm, gone and bought another 
so it's back into refit mode. Pete
mjcoon
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You've invented bird lime! (Probably not an approved way of catching ducks, though...)
Mike.
OGITD
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Can you?
Take it home & sit on/over a radiator for a week ...... (it's what I do ..... & sometimes a couple of weeks.)
It's what I did when making a new cockpit-hatch .... as I had a three stage process, anti rot, epoxy & then flowcoat.
Yes I did receive complaints ...... but it was worth every grumble .....
Take it home & sit on/over a radiator for a week ...... (it's what I do ..... & sometimes a couple of weeks.)
It's what I did when making a new cockpit-hatch .... as I had a three stage process, anti rot, epoxy & then flowcoat.
Yes I did receive complaints ...... but it was worth every grumble .....
C08
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Decided the 36 year old heavy PVC rubbing strip was showing a few battle scars with harbour walls and having corners at the stern these were also a bit tatty so decided to replace it. Took it all off and then found lots of the hull/deck securing scres were rotted away even though stainless (only 6mm screws but with enormaous slot heads!). Spent a few days filling, fairing and fitting new screws and then found that the new rubbing strip was far too stiff to fit in the winter, in fact it took me 2 days with a blower fan just to get out the tight bend in it from where it had been coiled up. Going to have round 2 this next week when I am hoping to fit the strip on both sides and front of the boat-only about 120 small holes to drill and countersink in the fixing strip, 120 holes in the hull and D section, fitting the stanless screws apart from the heating, stretching and pre-drilling positioning of the strip bedfore screwing it on. Not looking forward to it at all in the cold weather predicted and I can see an unhappy week ahead with perhaps a divorce or boat sale thrown in. Think of me chaps!
dje67
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Every job that involves stainless steel screws and aluminium.
Blueboatman
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If a job needs doing, well, it needs er finishing!
I am varnish free on the exterior, ha! But Jeeze, redoing the headlinings, ports and lockerlinings/adding insulation did seem to go on for ever. Hang on, still four lockers ( i think) to do, bugger..
I am varnish free on the exterior, ha! But Jeeze, redoing the headlinings, ports and lockerlinings/adding insulation did seem to go on for ever. Hang on, still four lockers ( i think) to do, bugger..
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