Swiss cheese
Had a busy day today at the marina. Tommy, Mark, Wayne, Mike, Chris, Eddie and Danny were down either working on their boats or checking in on them. This weekend’s work was drilling a bunch of holes in the side of the hull and bulkheads for through hulls and electrical conduit. Two new through hulls for the new bilge pump and fish box macerator as well as drilled and dry fit the conduit for my inverter project.
The wheels were delivered to the prop shop today, so hopefully they will be done and back by the end of the month.
All I really need to get done before going back in is to drill the last through hull for new foreword bilge pump, install the conduit for the inverter, seal my deck hatch and have Mark and Mike walk me through the bellows and gimbal bearing replacement. Everything else on my list can be done while in the water.
I was hoping to just uncover her and wash her prior to launch but that has been complicated by staining from a soda blasting company that should not be allowed to work in the manner they do. They did not really erect a tent, the blasting media and the bottom paint was not contained and ended up covering a very large portion of the marina as well as half a dozen or more boats. Not to mention this was performed not even 10′ from the water’s edge let alone outside the 100′ buffer zone. I tried to wash off the dust and dirt but after the surface mess was removed it revealed heavy staining that will need to be compounded out. The owner of the boat that was blasted did not seam to care too much about the damage and mess caused by the labor that he hired. I am not 100% sure right now how I will proceed but I don’t feel I should have to detail the boat myself or foot the bill to have someone else do it. Prior to covering I washed and polished the hull sides…so I would not have to do it prior to launch. She was also compounded in spring of 2008 so there should be no need to do it again in 2009.
Tags: PM & Repairs
