scubaman
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I went down to the boat on Tuesday to do some sprucing up in case a potential buyer should turn up soon.
The boat is in a warm shed and everything was fine and dry. Minor fixes here and there, cleaning the saloon from top to bottom and some polishing of the hull was on the agenda.
That's a police Targa next to ours
Got the transom shining again
A new pair of props waiting to be fitted. This following the minor contact with a rock last summer.
Taking a well earned break I wandered in to the neighboring shed where the larger boats are being kept.
Spot the boat, anyone?
No prises for this one.
And a clue for the first one.
The place is a drying dock. The boats on the sides are lifted with the cranes on the background while the bigger ones are drydocked on the floor.
This Dutch fellow looked brand new. The canopies were being fitted, hence it being the only boat uncovered.
Wandered on to the next shed to meet a boat carpenter about fixing the teaking on our boat (see pic #3). It turned out they are into classic wooden boats and import & renovate them according to customer's requests.
They had a really nice -52 Chris Craft waiting to be done (shame it was wrapped in plastic, so no proper photos).
The one on the left is an early 50's Chris Craft Riviera (?) They are re-doing the under water bits.
I felt a bit ashamed to be asking for such a trivial job as sandig the teak, but they were happy to take it. They seemed to take great pride in their work and I'm sure my teak is going to look good.
I stayed over night at the boat and thoroughly enjoyed working on the boat. It'll be long two months before we can have her on the water.
So not quite summer yet, this was what was going on not too far from where to boat is.
And no, it's not the result of the financial crisis, they had an ice fishing competition. The ice is almost meter thick...
Roll on summer! Thanks.
The boat is in a warm shed and everything was fine and dry. Minor fixes here and there, cleaning the saloon from top to bottom and some polishing of the hull was on the agenda.
That's a police Targa next to ours
Got the transom shining again
A new pair of props waiting to be fitted. This following the minor contact with a rock last summer.
Taking a well earned break I wandered in to the neighboring shed where the larger boats are being kept.
Spot the boat, anyone?
No prises for this one.
And a clue for the first one.
The place is a drying dock. The boats on the sides are lifted with the cranes on the background while the bigger ones are drydocked on the floor.
This Dutch fellow looked brand new. The canopies were being fitted, hence it being the only boat uncovered.
Wandered on to the next shed to meet a boat carpenter about fixing the teaking on our boat (see pic #3). It turned out they are into classic wooden boats and import & renovate them according to customer's requests.
They had a really nice -52 Chris Craft waiting to be done (shame it was wrapped in plastic, so no proper photos).
The one on the left is an early 50's Chris Craft Riviera (?) They are re-doing the under water bits.
I felt a bit ashamed to be asking for such a trivial job as sandig the teak, but they were happy to take it. They seemed to take great pride in their work and I'm sure my teak is going to look good.
I stayed over night at the boat and thoroughly enjoyed working on the boat. It'll be long two months before we can have her on the water.
So not quite summer yet, this was what was going on not too far from where to boat is.
And no, it's not the result of the financial crisis, they had an ice fishing competition. The ice is almost meter thick...
Roll on summer! Thanks.