Kaimusailing

I began stripping old bottom paint off with the angle grinder with a grinding wheel that resembles chain saw teeth. It works very well on soft crumbly old bottom paint, taking it off in chips that pile up on a tarp I laid down under the keel. This produces a minimum of sanding dust and the paint chips are more like coarse sand. I only did a small part of the port side of the port bow. The forecast was for possible tropical storm conditions, and it came in with high winds and heavy rain, ending any outside work.
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I never found my Black and Decker dremel type tool so I ordered one on eBay for about $7 from Denmark. Free shipping. It’s too good to be true, but we’ll see what arrives, if anything.
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Another pair of binoculars showed up, from Amazon, an ordinary sized 7X50 Cometron by Celestron. These have been reviewed many times on the internet and are good quality cheap binoculars. They cost around $35. Some of the yardbirds looked through them and commented on their clarity. One said he would try them against his pair of Steiners which are about 30 times the cost.
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The 7X50 size gives a good image in daylight and at 7 magnification are not too nervous for viewing from a sailboat. In comparison, the 15 power Skymasters are difficult to hold steady without a tripod or propping them against a solid object. On a sailboat they are useful only for their great light amplification when it is too dark to see with the naked eye or the smaller binoculars. They have about twice the light gathering capacity of the 7X50‘s.
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In this idle time I also ran across a funny video called “I am a cat sailor” on You Tube and can easily be searched for there. The image is not from the video, it is a drawing by Pavel Plotvin of Russia, called “Sailor Cat”, available for purchase from saatchiart.com