Saturday, March 26, 2011

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

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