On The Water

We much prefer being on the water!

Back Into The Water - Part 2

The Travelift starts its way over to our boat

Rounding the corner into the boat yard

Terratima waits patiently

Beginning to line up the Travelift

easing the lift in to cradle the boat

Just about ready to go

Moving back to the lift area over the water

The Admiral supervises the last stages of the move back to the water

Back Into The Water

We get the travelift to move us back into the water this morning.  As usual in Vancouver - it's raining, so it will be a soggy morning getting her ready to move.

Down To The Sea In Wooden Ships

Fishing Trawler

This boat is next to us in the boat yard.  I walked over for a look and this boat is entirely made of wood.  The new bow thruster at the front is has steel plates, but the entire hull is wood planking.  AWESOME.

Weekend On The Hard

Friday I spent at the office while we had a marine detailer polish and wax the hull.  The weather was to be uncertain, so it looked as though Sunday was the day we would be doing the bottom paint.  Well surprise! - it was beautiful today and they were here bright and early to get going.


WHen we took her out this was the condition around various areas of the boat below the water line:

Bow Thruster - notice the pitted zinc in the centre

Depth transducer to the left and speed to the right

needs some cleaning

Here is the stainless connection from the bottom of the keel to the bottom of the rudder

The zinc is toast

Aft part of keel, prop and rudder

Zincs - old and new

Friday - Hull all polished

Fresh bottom paint

Looking much better 

Boat yard entry.  The gate gets closed at dusk.

There we are in the background with a trawler next door

All done

New zincs at the bow thruster

New zinc on the prop shaft

The blades get cleaned up tomorrow

New zinc at the rudder strut

While all the other work was happening, I cleaned up the

swim ladder mechanism.  Near the salt water, the stainless

tended to rust in spots - not any more

Our blue stair to the "tree house" 

back to the water on Monday

Out of the Water

So the day came and we are now on the hard.  We had a very helpful and efficient crew manning the travel lift and they had us washed and in our spot in about an hour.

Here we are just in the midst of being lifted.

Lifted and we start moving toward the boat yard

Walking her toward the yard

Moving toward the power wash bay

All washed and ready to move again

Into our "on the hard" spot

Cribbed and the travel lift moves away

....and now comes bottom sanding, paint, cleaning and waxing

Preparing to Haul

We will be hauling our boat for the first time since its commissioning.  We will be on the hard for about 4 days for bottom sanding and painting, checking the thru hulls, changing out the zincs and inspecting everything we normally can't see.


We will see the underside of the boat for the first time.  All we've seen previously is the profile in the sail plan:

We'll let you know what we find - hopefully no nasty surprises.  

SUNNY

YIPES - finally some sunshine.  The boat will be hauled on the 24th for bottom paint and zincs, check the thru-hulls, etc.  This will be the first haul of our new boat and we'll be "on the hard" for about 5 days as the work is done.  ...and yes, we'll still be living on board.