July 13 - Gail Hurts
Gail is gaining control over Dwight's self-destructive behaviors. Yesterday, she stopped him after he complained of head pains resulting from a 3 hour epsoide removing rust from the lazarette floor with a
needlegun scaler.
Today, he stopped after about 5 hours. We have another day of rust removal and then Dwight will paint the floor with POR-15 as a temporary measure so that the area is clean while the Glendinning units are installed. Eventually we will remove everything from the lazerette and paint with
Rhino Bed Liner or an equilivent.
Yes, Dwight is wearing ear protection.
Gail spend almost two days beneath the pilot-house console labelling and removing the dozens of wires from the gauges, alarms, switches, radios, etc in preparation to rebuild and recover the console. Space beneath the console is limited, and Gail is still uncoiling. Her knees have not spent this much time on the ground since she was learning to roller skate. We are considering a historical photographic record of our bruises and injuries.
July 5 - Job Creep
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Yep, we added work items. Gail decided to recover the ceiling panels, wall panels, reupholster the settee and recover the console in the pilot house. Gail purchased the black 3 oz leather to conver the console from
Tandy Leather, and the majilite from
EBay. These materials should arrive in a week or so. Meanwhile, we need to remove the old adhesive, and all instruments from the console. Gail has volunteered to label and remove the hundreds of wires leading to the array of gauges, radios, switches, lights, alarms, etc.
Dwight recommended they retire the malfunctioning speed-log, and replace the magnetic compass with a
Furuno SC50 satellite compass.
Please note: at this point, Dwight became an official enabler as the compass will comprise the single most expensive change to the pilot house.
July 3 - Sandblasting Completed
Delta has finished sandblasting the sub-sub-floor of the master and guest stateroom heads and a barrier coat of epoxy paint has been applied.
I spent a few hours removing the transom lettering and cleaning out the lazarette. We need to prepare the lazarette for chipping, sandblasting, future installation of the
Glendinning Cable Masters, new lighting and eventual painting. We are planning to paint the lazarette with a two component paint used for
truck bed liners.
Zincs
I decided to remove the
sacrificial zincs in preparation for eventual bottom painting. Because the boat is not in its final cradle, the zincs are easier to remove. While removing the zincs I noticed something curious about the depletion of the port and starboard rudder zincs.
The amount of depletion on the port zinc (left in the picture above) is considerably less than on the starboard zinc; the port zinc looks like new. Since we dock on our port side, I initially considered the possibility of an electrical problem. I remembered reading that if the zincs on the side of the boat facing the dock are depleting faster than the zincs on the opposing side, then there may be electrical current leaking from the dock. But the zinc facing the dock has less depletion, not more, and this was the only pair of zincs that depleted at different rates. All other zincs depleted an equal amount - much like that on the starboard rudder. Our zincs were last replaced in May of 2006.
As I was leaving, Delta was building the cradle which will function as our final resting place for the duration of this yard visit.
You can see the impact of pressure washing on the anitfoulant - it was largely intact before pressure washing.