good news, bad news which one first? and the trip from mobjack!
26 October 2009
bad news first! the boats cabin is all rot! yep the little ass p/o did not replace a thing! he just painted it green or white and called it new so this means its gonna get gutted... every inch of wood gonna come out and be replaced with marine ply the water tank has a leak so iv got to repair it, not a big deal im also going to add a screw type port to it so i can give it a good clean. a few things will stay, the galley sink, some of the lights, elc panel batterys, some of the teak trim after a good soak of bleach new varnish and sum time in the sun... the holding tank if its in good shape... but not the head thats going to be a new one. and the rigging, winches...
so next summer ill pull the rig and start ripping out the cabin, then sand, and bleach the hull, pull the atomic 4 maybe rebuild??, paint the bilge paint the hull sides and think of a new layout and start putting that in.
iv already kicked one bulkhead out, pulled the water tank derigged the boom, thrown away all of the seat covers and foam closed all of the seacocks for the winter, taking sails down and put them in my room took the anchors off the deck and put them below, wired the bilge pump...
the trip north from mobjack went well but we bucked a north wind and ebb tide going a wopping 1.5 knots we limped north with the outboard comming out of the water, and then would almost dunk under water in the trough of a big wave.
found the main to be in fair shape with only a hole or two! well more like 3:) but hey whos counting?