Stars, Sails - the Parallax View

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It's a grind...

03 November 2010 | Pensacola
Heather/ Tstorms and intermittent rain / 68F
[My sincere apologies to Full Monty (I loved your comment!!! Please leave more!), I had to delete the previous posting under this name, until I got the "image display" thing figured out. Sort of! -- Heather]

Derek is working on the head compartment, and pulling headliner out where it had discolored over time and was sagging. Here's the head compartment after he removed the head, cleaned the compartment where fluids had pooled beneath the Lectra San waste treatment unit (ewww), and stripped the carpet-style hullblanket headliner and ground away the little fibers that were sticking out of the hull after the stripping out. This is dangerous for lungs and skin, so he wears a full Tyvek suit, respirator mask, gloves, and uses a filter bag in the ShopVac:
Head compartment, stripping

He's also stripping the headliner from Grant's berth. Notice the lovely mosaic (around the small opening port) the previous owners created -- that definitely stays! I will need to reglue the tiles on the bottom row because they had been glued to the headliner.
Grant's berth after headliner stripping but before grinding

Meanwhile, I am using a large container of Flitz polishing compound and an assortment of Flitz Buff-balls with a drill to make the semi-opaque plexiglass windows clear again. Here's a before-style view (over the galley):
Plexiglass window BEFORE the buff-ball treatment

And here's an "after" view (over the navstation counter):
It's CLEAR!
It's all hard on the arms, what Derek's doing is harder, because it's overhead and in a full hazmat suit. It's a good thing he was working out so much before we started this :-)

I'd be out there now, but it's been raining hard in Pensacola, so hard that the backyard of the house we are renting has suddenly begun to get smaller... notice the bushes, which were well above the margin of the lake, are now IN the lake...
And this after only eight hours of rain
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Vessel Name: Parallax
Vessel Make/Model: 37' Prout Snowgoose (1982)
Hailing Port: Pensacola
Crew: Derek, Heather and Grant
About:
Two astronomers, looking for variable stars and adventure. After cruising the Caribbean aboard S/V Paradox for 18 months in the early 90s, the crew swallowed the anchor and had a child, always planning their next Great Adventure: cruising under sail with Grant, showing him the world. [...]
Extra:
We knew that if we ever got a catamaran, we'd want a name to celebrate her twin-hulledness. Parallax is seeing the same thing from two slightly different points of view, which with our two eyes is what gives humans our depth perception. It's also a good metaphor for one of the benefits of marriage. [...]

S/V Parallax

Who: Derek, Heather and Grant
Port: Pensacola