I spent the next year getting sober and learning my boat. Battery maintainance, fiberglass repain, tail trim, plumbing, deisel engine repair, transmission repair, anchoring, ect, ect, ect...... i also was learning a new way of dealing with life.....
This is a picture when we hauled out in preparation for the Grand Voyages. There is one hell of a cool yard in Freeport Florida. The yard managers name is Mike and the staff there supported us the entire time we did work on kindred. We subsequently pulled the motor, replaced the gear, installed a dripless packing gland, installed a pressure weashdown pump, had a new shaft forged, brought down the entire bottom to clean gel coat, rebuilt it up after sealing it in epoxy and covering it with 6 layers of interprotect. then botom painted with 2-3 coats of trinidad sr. we spent some time there!