Month: March 2022

I had a busy day planned today since my wife was out of town visiting her parents, so I got up, made a cup of coffee and locked myself out of my house.

Once I finally got back in and had my keys, I took my motorcycle out to orting and picked up the battens for the mainsail. The guy who gave me the boat texted me earlier in the week to tell me that he’d found the “Mainsail shrouds”. I knew what he was talking about.

Once I got home, I traded my bike for my pickup, loaded up everything to do some epoxy work, got just about to the bridge, turned around and went back home and got the rest of the stuff needed for epoxy work.I had to make a couple stops in Gig Harbor for a couple things that I didn’t have on hand, like poly sheeting, some thin ply, wood to cut into battens to hold the ply up, and a notched epoxy spreader that Fisheries was out of when I placed my order a couple weeks ago. Once I was at the boat, I spent most of my time trying to get one last stubborn chunk of wet core out of the bow. It started raining later in the day, so no epoxy work today.

Brent was there to help today, and he sanded a good portion of the hull. We talked about motors and moorage. I think it’s time to get a slip out at Tyee.

I’m pretty excited for daylight savings time, and more daylight to work on the boat.

Our boat partners got us a good place to park the boat while we’re working on it, so Saturday, we got to work. We emptied the house of everything. Radio, cushions, sucked out water.

I didn’t notice the first two times I looked at the boat, but there was a soft spot on the deck. Woops. If I were paying $15k + for a boat, that’s what a marine survey would have been for. But this one didn’t cost that much. So we started going to town.

What came out of the bow was a big wet mushy mess. Over the next few weeks, almost the entire deck core would have to come out. I’ve been out to work on the a couple of week days each week since we started, cutting, grinding and sanding fiberglass. Even with a Tyvek suit, respirator and goggles, it’s a messy business.