All the news from the boatyard... we're busy ... and right behind our stern, boats are going in and out of the boatyard .... lucky souls!
No new photos today -- let's see.... David sanded and epoxied the holes where the brass rub rail has always been bent out & despite paying three times to have it fixed, no joy. We decided to do it ourselves. He "borrowed" some epoxy that Ron, our neighbor, said would work, waited for it to "cure" and VOILA! So far the brass rub rail is no longer zinging out, but holding tight to the rub rail!
Then he took the two original stainless step bars off the transom. They've been under the Monitor Windvane bugging us for years, but it took literally 3 of us to get the last of 12 screws out of the transom. But they're GONE! Now we need to fill the holes with epoxy and cover the spots with SNOWFLAKES like around the rest of the "Winterlude" name on the transom...
Me? I worked harder today than I've ever worked... hence, no photos. I started by sanding & adding varnish to the sail locker, two coats today, four total, so far.
Then I got the bright idea that if we removed the jerry can rail, I could sand and re-varnish it too... sanded, revarnished, two coats so far... (see what I mean, BORING boatyard stuff that doesn't merit photos...)
THEN STUPID ME!!! I stripped the cetol & gloss off the top of our rather substantial rub rail -- 3" deep & 3" wide -- two years ago to let it weather to a beautiful silver teak. But sitting out on the hard reminds me of whenever I come back to the boat in the dinghy -- I can see the BOTTOM of that dang rub rail ... with the cetol that have never seen UV rays, and hence never deteriorated .... not one bit....
But they look like CRAP when you see them from below in a dinghy. SO I decide to remove the cetol ... BIG MISTAKE! I assumed since they've not been touched for literally several years, the stuff would peel right off.... but we "lost" our heat gun two years ago when I took the cockpit table home to strip and varnish....I tried sanding with my trusty Black & Decker Mouse.... ummmm.... not so good, PLUS I was literally breathing sawdust making me feel like that commercial with that elephant sitting on someone... hard to breathe.
But over the course of the day, I got the port side rubrail stripped.... Now there's the starboard side ... Maybe .... some other day.....
Then he took the two original stainless step bars off the transom. They've been under the Monitor Windvane bugging us for years, but it took literally 3 of us to get the last of 12 screws out of the transom. But they're GONE! Now we need to fill the holes with epoxy and cover the spots with SNOWFLAKES like around the rest of the "Winterlude" name on the transom...
Me? I worked harder today than I've ever worked... hence, no photos. I started by sanding & adding varnish to the sail locker, two coats today, four total, so far.
Then I got the bright idea that if we removed the jerry can rail, I could sand and re-varnish it too... sanded, revarnished, two coats so far... (see what I mean, BORING boatyard stuff that doesn't merit photos...)
THEN STUPID ME!!! I stripped the cetol & gloss off the top of our rather substantial rub rail -- 3" deep & 3" wide -- two years ago to let it weather to a beautiful silver teak. But sitting out on the hard reminds me of whenever I come back to the boat in the dinghy -- I can see the BOTTOM of that dang rub rail ... with the cetol that have never seen UV rays, and hence never deteriorated .... not one bit....
But they look like CRAP when you see them from below in a dinghy. SO I decide to remove the cetol ... BIG MISTAKE! I assumed since they've not been touched for literally several years, the stuff would peel right off.... but we "lost" our heat gun two years ago when I took the cockpit table home to strip and varnish....I tried sanding with my trusty Black & Decker Mouse.... ummmm.... not so good, PLUS I was literally breathing sawdust making me feel like that commercial with that elephant sitting on someone... hard to breathe.
But over the course of the day, I got the port side rubrail stripped.... Now there's the starboard side ... Maybe .... some other day.....
In the meantime, these lucky people from Lake Monroe, Indiana ... trailered their Pearson 27 to Florida, stepped the mast at the boatyard, launched the boat and are off cruising!!! Good for them!
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