Today is Saturday. For most people it's a weekend, but for those in the boatyard, it's just another day. It's actually nice because the only people here are people working on their boats, no outside contractors. So there's a "neighborly" feeling that's lacking during weekdays.
Here's Ron, our boatyard neighbor, hard at work on filling some places in his rudder. He's been busy grinding, sanding and prepping the bottom all week ... but he goes home at night for whatever his "social director" has planned.
This boat got brand new granite countertops yesterday ... really? Granite? Seems a bit heavy to me, but maybe I'm just jealous! It sure was fun watching them get loaded via a crane aboard! My formica countertops have been on my replace list for years, but other more pressing projects keep getting in the way...
See this -- 3M 4200? This got me in trouble!
Being the good boatyard wife, I did laundry today. But then David interrupted me because in the middle of a critical step in the installation of the new depthsounder throughhull, the 4200 solidified and we need to drop everything and go buy more. So I broke my own cardinal rule of boatwife laundry and left the load in the dryer that had a half hour to go. After all, Home Depot is 2 minutes down the road, we'll be back in 10 minutes tops, right? Wrong. By the time we found 4200 and returned some "kind" soul had not only removed my dry laundry from the dryer but deposited it it WAY on the other side of the room out of sight... of course, I panicked and thought someone had stolen our clean but stained t-shirts. Oh well, I deserved it. Darn 4200 anyway.
Being the good boatyard wife, I did laundry today. But then David interrupted me because in the middle of a critical step in the installation of the new depthsounder throughhull, the 4200 solidified and we need to drop everything and go buy more. So I broke my own cardinal rule of boatwife laundry and left the load in the dryer that had a half hour to go. After all, Home Depot is 2 minutes down the road, we'll be back in 10 minutes tops, right? Wrong. By the time we found 4200 and returned some "kind" soul had not only removed my dry laundry from the dryer but deposited it it WAY on the other side of the room out of sight... of course, I panicked and thought someone had stolen our clean but stained t-shirts. Oh well, I deserved it. Darn 4200 anyway.
Now that the 4200 crisis had been resolved, David went to install the new through hull fitting to house the new transducer. Oops, water in the compartment? How is that even possible? It's fresh water, so before he can proceed, he traces a leak under the head sink (that we haven't used in 5 days) and replaces an older hose that was dripping anytime we turned on the pressure water. We waited a few hours and let the fan blow on the area before playing in the 4200 stickiness. No worries, I'll document the entire new depth transducer process in a post on CommuterCruiser.com soon -- if we don't sink when we refloat the boat! The bottom line is DON'T rush out to replace all your obsolete ST50Plus TriData electronics just because tech support tells you that you have no choice.
Overall, I thought this boat exemplified how our time in the boat yard has gone so far! :) :) :) If you can't laugh at yourself and foibles, you need an attitude adjustment - like me yesterday! :)
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