30 May 2021 | Sawmill Point Marina, Wilmington NC, USA
24 May 2021 | Wilmington Marine Center, USA
23 February 2021 | Cape Fear Yachts
20 December 2020 | Cape Fear Yachts
11 December 2020 | Cape Fear Yachts
09 September 2020 | Wilmington Port, USA
09 September 2020 | Wilmington Port, USA
05 February 2017 | Pte Miri Miri, Raiatea, French Polynesia
05 February 2017 | Raiatea Lagoon, French Polynesia
05 February 2017 | South end of Raiatea
01 February 2017 | Baie Vaiaeho, Raiatea, French Polynesia
01 February 2017 | Baie Vaiaeho, Raiatea, French Polynesia
31 January 2017 | West Side of Raiatea
31 January 2017 | West Side of Raiatea, French Polynesia
31 January 2017 | West side of Raiatea
30 January 2017 | Marina Apooiti, Raiatea, French Polynesia
30 January 2017 | Marina Apooiti, Raiatea, French Polynesia
28 January 2017 | Marina Apooiti, Raiatea, French Polynesia
27 January 2017 | Marina Apooiti, Raiatea, French Polynesia
Bulkheads
23 November 2010 | Oriental NC
Hard to capture in an image...
In a boat, there are "walls" that go from one side of the boat to the other, called bulkheads. Some go from the hull to the deck and separate the cabins. Others only go from the hull to underneath the floor. All of these form a "rib-cage" in the boat to give the hull stiffness and help it to keep its form.
Since we were dropped many times from the top of 8' to 10' waves onto the sand, the shock of those falls were transmitted up through the keel, through the skin of the hull and into the boat. That shock broke the fiberglass tabbing that holds the bulkheads to the hull. Most of them are on the port side of the boat.
It is the repair of these that has forced us to move off the boat... largely because of the dust created when cutting out the old tabbing and preparing to install the new tabbing.