Work work work!!!
02 December 2014 | Guaymas (Boat Yard) Mexico
Ellen
Now really people... I do not need an intervention!! I like my happy hour but it turns out I like my happy hour on a shinny clean boat! Since my last post, I've been so busy buffing and waxing Kasasa I can hardly type let alone lift my glass at the end of the day. But the end is in site. I hope to be done with 3 more hours of work to go. It's a physically hard job to clean and wax the boat especially when doing it by hand. But I have to say it's one of those jobs that I get satisfaction from. I love the feel of the wax as you rub it in and the hull gets smoother and smoother. Ian always said I'm about 'instant gratification' and this is really that. Wax on Wax off...
In the meantime, Ian has been busy doing other boat maintenance projects. It's year number 5 and we thought it prudent to do some things to the boat to keep her in shape. We have replaced all the bolts in the toerail... that's over 250 bolts folks, changed out half of the rigging (the other half will do next season), re run some plumbing due to issues we were having, installed the new depth sounder which included running new wires and a new transducer and making a new bracket to fit the new sounder, checked the chainplates for cracks and found none, replacing hose clamps, checking and replacing impellers as needed and the list goes on, still a few things to be done. I would dearly love to have the boat painted but not in the budget this year will re look at next year.
So that pretty much sums up what we have been doing - oh yeah that and enjoying happy hour every night mostly with our good friends Fran and Jean Guy on Gosling. They have their own list of jobs and should be in the water in a week or so. For us, we plan on taking a week off next week and spending it in San Carlos as some friends from Vancouver are coming to visit. So we probably won't be back in the water till close to Christmas. After that our plans are pretty fluid, we will cruise around the Sea until end of March and then put the boat to bed in early April but that is still a few months away.