01/23/2010, Jolly Harbour, Antigua
We are definitely falling behind.. So I moved the launch date one day back.
We will then us the dock at the yard for a couple of days to clean up > and test all equipment .. - Of course as soon as you announce the new date, everybody disappears :-( .
Good news- Today, we got the 12V power up and running again = we didn't mess up anything when making the new panels.
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01/22/2010, Jolley Harbour, Antigua
It's going to be a hard to get the boat ready for Monday .. Every morning it seems like I'm the only one working on the boat .. It's just hard, to get them to show up for the job ..
Anyway, Today we removed the old boat name [EMERALD] ... This also meant, that I had to hold some sort of speech and had to drink some alcohol while doing so...??? I decided to do in in private down below ...:-) it was probably not the best speech....
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01/21/2010, Antigua Jolly Harbour
For the last couple of days the progress did slow down significantly so I got "another" guy to help out. Working with a guy doesn't necessarily mean they work for you all day long , as most of them work on multiple jobs. Therefore, in a best case scenario, you maybe get 3-4 hours each day from a guy. (with the exception of the painters that really seem to stick to a job) Anyway, I believe we are back on track for the scheduled launch on Monday- but I will have to drop a few of my on project for now .. Tomorrow the electrician is supposed to work on my boat all day long ( as he had promised for the past two days ) well, we will see... Funny thing- currently everybody working on the boat is named georg, george the electrician .george the carpenter ,george the fiber glass guy ,and georg the captain (that's what they call me ....:-)
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01/20/2010
Today they sanded the bottom and put the barrier coat on ...(as we don't know what paint they previously used, a barrier coat is required) Final bottom color will be black as it's supposed to work better then any other color (what do I know - black it is now..:-) ) * The only mistake they made , is that they should have done the sanding back at the secured storage area ... Now the paint dust is embedded into the ground around the boat, especially in the back where the ladder is located .. .. So I'm dragging all that paint onto the boat :-( - ... I just hope it will come off easy ... * Arch is starting to look pretty good I think ... The arch still seems to be out of level ( off by 2-3 deg), but at this point I'm not sure what to do about this, as the options are limited. (what makes this super hard, is the fact that they usually don't level the boats to make sure the cockpit will drain properly)
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We actually also managed to mount the arch to the boat today :-) :-)
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Today was a moving day - the boat got finally moved to the yard- this should make things a bit easier. We also managed to put the arch up in the afternoon :-) :-)
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