08/01/2010, St Pete, FL
We finally made it home with the boat. She is safe and sound in her slip. Bout time.
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07/20/2010, St Pete, FL
We finally made it back into the water. In this picture you will see the bowsprit is missing. The guys are putting the finishing touches on it and in a few days we will be on our way back to the marina. Man it seems like Gypsy has been in the yard for a looooong time. Oh, that's right, she HAS! Uuughh
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06/24/2010, St Pete, FL
Ouch is an understatement. Just when we thought we were just days from splashing the boat, we arrived at the yard only to discover the owner of the yard had backed a trailered boat into our bowsprit. The impact broke one of the bow pulpit rails and damaged some of the teak on the sprit. I guess we will not be splashing her for a bit longer. The sprit was repaired and we also discovered some rot in the sampson posts that we would have not know about if the sprit had not been damaged. Things happen for a reason. So I guess we will be replacing the posts too. Heck, Why not?
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06/18/2010, St Pete, FL
The bottom paint went on right after the epoxy coat. They have to paint it quick so the paint will "grab" the epoxy. This method creates a good bond between barrier and bottom paint. We are getting closer to helping Gypsy "break out" of the yard.
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06/17/2010, St Pete, FL
Well poor Gypsy has been hanging out in the yard for the last several weeks having some blister repair work done. Once the bottom was blasted it revealed many small blisters that we had repaired. This process can take a good amount of time when you are dodging rain storms. The bottom had to then be coated with an epoxy barrier coat to seal the moisture out. Hopefully this will keep some of those blisters from coming back. Time will tell.
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05/19/2010, St Pete, FL
We decided to have the bottom blasted to get past the MANY layers of bottom paint that have been accumulating on this old girl over the years. She was starting to suffer from "flaking", where the paint comes off in large flakes due to the original primer and bottom paint parting company. If we had painted over this situation, we would have only been buying a small amount of time. The new paint would eventually start flaking off down to the primer too. So let the "blasting" begin.
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