the dark cold days of winter

Well

He were are again with a really cold start to the winter already down to 13 degree and staying around 32 degrees all day with a lot of wind

After christmas i will have to suck it up and keep pushing :)

Another job finished

what damage a small leak did



working to save the good wood



new wood and a LOT of glass work to make it strong



something about white paint and stainless that say finished

One year + today

Well it was one year ago this weekend i put on a BIG push to pull the motor so i could refurbish it and the rest of the boat

At this point i have finished all the big jobs BUT there is a huge amount of paint plumbing and electric work left to finish making a finish date hard to predict

And there is the issue of my 30th wedding anniversary as we are taking a fairly costly trip :)

I can honestly say at this point the only regret is going for the high quality topside paint as its really gonna hold up the launch

more hardware

deck hatch and putting back hardware

old and badly installed






Rebuilt and well installed at least IMHP :)

white at the end of the tunnel :)

droping the rudder

Well

I was NOT looking forward to this as i do confined entry repairs for a living and the quadrant on the 29 is really freaking stand on your head confined





Through some random act of kindness the quadrant was bronze and fully split and after 40 years it came apart like it was put on last week :cool:





I really did not want o dig a hole in my concrete driveway and was getting nervous BUT it cleared by 1" :laugher

A big thanks to Mainsail for his deck core sealing guide
]http://www.pbase.com/mainecruising/sealing_the_deck





After a bunch of hole sawing drilling and dremel routing i lost count but it was a LOT of holes :eek:



A bunch of sealing below and filled with the mix of your liking

Well that as a LOT of work with a bunch of detail work LEFT in drilling and epoxy sealing the core

I tried getting in the anchor locker to do some tape work and got STUCK Sunday :eek:

The thought of somebody cutting cutting up my work was quite the motivator :D



Tonight i used the laminate trimmer to cut the core were it overlapped on the hatch now i just have to brush on a few coats to seal it when i drill and pot the about 40 hardware holes:rolleyes:

Been busy

Well i have lost the weather to finish the paint this year and have gone back to finishing up the inside glass work

I will take the time this weekend for some pictures as a lot of progress has been made

The topsides paint

well what can i say but its a LOT of work :)





But i have turned this back into

Earl and other slowdowns

Well

I got sick on Monday Aug 30 and the temp went up to 100 degrees So i was just not up to any upside down fiberglass work this week

With the threat of Earl and dealing with the town about the paint tarp setup i just spent 3 hours on Thursday taking down the frame and putting regular tarps back one the boat


Of coarse we had ZERO rain and about as much wind BUT it was better than dealing with a real hurricane as we have been through many direct hits over the last 40 years i have lived here

On Monday labor day i plan on putting up the tarps a different way that will allow me to try and get the hull paint done Or at least the primer as we seem to have a good run of weather coming

the bulkhead repiar is finished

If you recall last year :) this was pretty bad and important because it holds up the mast



i had to cut out a good size chunk to find dry wood



with the wonder of epoxy and time i have a bulkhead again

Tom Vs the Town

It seems on my neighbors does not like my boat cover so they filed a complaint



And the town left a letter in my door to give them a call on Monday of face there wrath

After talking to my friend who works for the highway department and my son the Assistant district attorney it seems the temporary nature of the cover will make it hard for them to do much but i will find out more on Monday

And if they want to get nasty about it i have a second design with no legs that is 100% boat supported :)

the hull to deck joint ficaso finished

i new the would be some problems when i removed the rub rail but as usally they were much worse than one would expect

There was more or less nothing holding the starboard hull to deck together due to a piss poor previous repair



I had to grind and clean out 29' of joint on the outside of the boat and inject west SIX-10 epoxy which was chosen because it is thickened and self mixes out of a standard caulking gun and then put rivets back into the original holes

It worked out pretty good BUT that was the easy part :)

Then i had to go inside the boat and grind off all the delaminated tape that was supposed to be holding the joint together

This was the mother of all fiberglass snow storms and made about 30 pounds of dust







So after much 6" tape a even more masking tape and paper as i had to do a lot of grinding insides the cabinets the hull is now rock solid

Topsides sanding

I was able to sand 5 hours Saturday and 3 hours Sunday before my arms said enough so much of the old filler had fallen off i did not feel safe trusting any out it and ground it all out

It will be a PITA filling and fairing :)

the glass work is started

The glassing of the new inner skin to the core is some messy slow work BUT like everything else its getting easy with each section as i learn



i will try and get a focused picture latter but my but is kicked from sanding the topsides right now

Around Long Island Fun

It was a good ride till we found the rock



So Zzzooom is down for at least a month as the rock at 7 knots did a lot of hull damage :(

i have gotten deep into the hull paint and glassing the recore and will have to update with some pictures

enough work off to the races

Life does not get any better than a 190 mile sailboat race

Topsides paint

I had to contain the dust and keep direct sun off the boat so build i did



I took about 50 pounds of old paint off so far with a razor blade and STRONG 15 minute paint stripper and found soemthing resembling original gel coat

It does not look like much BUT its over 240 sq-ft of surface to prep

the last piece of forward core

Now for a bunch of glass work

what else more core

A bit of plywood to hold things up now that i ran out of flat ground



And the bow has been reached :)

Starting the topside paint

i don't know why but the hull is called the topsides :) So i changed to cover a bit to make some work room and started in the worst place on the boat



gonna have to order the gallon of water proof filler

main suport beam back in

Through some act of kindness this beam was in good condition and i was able to drill aliment holes before removing it and epoxy it back in the same place over the new core and the deck now has its original crown

but of course more core progress

It was freaking Hot this week




The paper thin edges was all that was holding up the inner skin had cut from above







And another week another two feet of core the good news is its gets narrow the bad news is theres nothing easy to hold up the core now