Moving Right Along

[Deep C]

They were using 3m perfect2 and other 3m wax...

She's back in the slip... Finally!!!

Not without some heart stopping moments though...

I think it was the travelift operators second time on her ever... My bung slammed hsut as he had her rockin bad in the sling. Then it was a freak low tide and the straps damn near didn't want to drop low enough...

Getting into my slip was hell too. Ripping side current, no mate and no water... Keel glanced off a mound of sand toward the viking parked next to me. She did not want to respond. Then there was a big section of pvc somebody must have thrown away where my port wheel was that the blade kept hitting... At low idle every time she hit she about puked the motor and once she finally did. The silt was so bad that the gen set got hot and shut down... It was brutal but a whole lot of pullin on dock lines got her right...

I'm tired... I'm gonna have a protein shake now and get ready for fishing all weekend...

[gradywhite273]

They were using 3m perfect2 and other 3m wax...

She's back in the slip... Finally!!!

Not without some heart stopping moments though...

I think it was the travelift operators second time on her ever... My bung slammed hsut as he had her rockin bad in the sling. Then it was a freak low tide and the straps damn near didn't want to drop low enough...

Getting into my slip was hell too. Ripping side current, no mate and no water... Keel glanced off a mound of sand toward the viking parked next to me. She did not want to respond. Then there was a big section of pvc somebody must have thrown away where my port wheel was that the blade kept hitting... At low idle every time she hit she about puked the motor and once she finally did. The silt was so bad that the gen set got hot and shut down... It was brutal but a whole lot of pullin on dock lines got her right...

I'm tired... I'm gonna have a protein shake now and get ready for fishing all weekend...

what you go into old port cove ?? caught canvas in the wheels coming and going out of there

[Deep C]

what you go into old port cove ?? caught canvas in the wheels coming and going out of there

No ... That trap is nearly as fun as the thrid marker and the 2 foot deep lump that has built in the channel...
I found what I think was the old septic line that used to run to a house next to Panama Hatties...

[gradywhite273]

No ... That trap is nearly as fun as the thrid marker and the 2 foot deep lump that has built in the channel...
I found what I think was the old septic line that used to run to a house next to Panama Hatties...

you sure that isn't where they were dumping the shells of the stone crab claws nimrod and i had ????

[Deep C]

you sure that isn't where they were dumping the shells of the stone crab claws nimrod and i had ????

Nope not quite sure of that... Its possible... I heard a rumor that the canvas clogging the marina entrance might be one of your tee shirts that got away while tring to get spots off your windshield...

[gradywhite273]

Nope not quite sure of that... Its possible... I heard a rumor that the canvas clogging the marina entrance might be one of your tee shirts that got away while tring to get spots off your windshield...

that is a distinct possibility. i hate those spots

[Deep C]

Well its been a long couple weeks since launching... Time to attack the interior... Getting an education on just what a pain in the ass it can be just to get people to work on a boat... Enlisting Murray and Rybovitch help is expensive and getting their guys to free up is harder than getting congress to pass a bill bailing out we the people...

Corian countertops? Yeah right... get in line... Been weeks since I placed the order and maybe on Monday they will template the area... Whats funny is their cabinet people were only contacted a few days ago and they're already building the new entertainment center...

My canvas man has been great all along so I was taken back when the wall he was supposed to replace and the full boat of "welds" wasn't done. Come to find out that his main worker pulled a traffic ticket and INS got a hold of him and gave him the boot back across the border... The owner of the business himself is swamped but has given his word that he will do the work himself.

Floors... Now theres a sore subject... Five different people from five different sources gave me five different quotes and five different ways to do it but none of them wanted to take on a job this small... The boss and I got fed up and were going to go back to carpet... Even more of a hassle trying to find people who will do it for a boat... Finally one of the hardwood guys boss's showed up... This guy was the only one I have encountered with his shit together. He took the job and next day had his crew chief aboard assessing waht all he will need to do to get it right... Teak... Love it and hate it but it beats stinky old carpet...

My old mechanic buddy showed up finally and is ready to address some plumbing, and refrigeration issues... Found some leaky pipes and a dead shower sump pan too... Monday ought to be good. Mechanic and his worker below. Canvas man, Floor dudes, cabinet man, and corian counter dudes all stuffed in that little cabin...

I have spent the last couple days tearing guts out of inside and for the next few I get to play traffic cop and start "fishifying" the pretty girl...

[Deep C]

When we got this boat I did a pre survey. The sales person was mis informed or full of shit when it came to certain things. The boat had a set of smells to it... He said the owner of the boat didn't want to over load the power box running the a/c units hard. Bull shit... the cooling pump for the air conditioners was dead and judging from its condition I would say for years. The A/c couldn't run...
Stink involves more than a/c running or not... Something has to start it and then feed it. Sometimes its a simple thing or in our case it was a series of things... Lets start with the biggest culprit... The boat maker... I love Viking... My favorite boat but when they built this particular one somebody was not living up to the Viking reputation...
In going over the boat we noticed rusted staples that hold the canvas to the walls. First off, why they used cheap ass staples instead of monel or at least stainless is past me. Bottom line though; they did... The rusty staples were a side symptom of a bigger issue...
We tore the rotted section of wall out and I could instantly see the issue. The rub rail had been affixed with every third screw missing and the rail it self had never been sealed... A couple tubes of 5200 would have stopped the shit before it started but now I'm looking at 12 years worth of catch up to do...
First thing was to address that rail and see to it that no water ever enters the boat again to feed the funk. A single tube of 5200 and that chore was done...
Next was to start hunting out stink hidey holes... A trip between walls and hull was necessary and man did that turn up some yuck. I removed walls, backs of cabinets, got under floors and went in a full scale hunt... Pocket after pocket of stagnant water puddled were there. Mold farms now choked off from life giving water were blasted with X14 Mold killer. Its not enough to just blast it... It only kills the surface. You gotta kill that layer then wipe it off and kill it again til the whole damn thing is dead...
Days upon days I hunted the crap down and finally got a handle on it... Good for a start but not near enough. Some mold finds places you dont readily see... Another trip through the bowels of the boat finds that it has holed up in the wiring harnesses themselves... If you're gonna go on a mission you need to commit 100 percent to killing it all and so I did.
I found mold in some weird places that shouldn't have ever seen moisture... Under the built in couch for example... No way for it to get there or can it... Enter the next big culprit... A carpet... For the lack of a better word, a "wick". Tracing the source back from there led to other important discoveries. Like they never used sealing tape in the plumbing and though just a tiny seepage from any one fitting, add em together and you may as well have had a sprinkler system.
You now have killed the major sources but still it smells... Aha! The a/c ducts them selves have been transporting the spores for years. They get tore down and douched...Still the smell is there? Duh... That carpet you're standing on is the farm...It gets slung... The mold smell now is less and less noticable... Whats that new funk?... The walls them selves have been "breathing" diesel fuel and fumes for a dozen years... A surface clean of them and the cabinet surfaces reduces that facet of odor... Cedar lined closets when scuffed with some light sand paper once again start releasing their fresh cedar oil smell...
No longer masked by mold and diesel, the remaining smells show stronger... Dig in places you havn't been. We don't shower aboard the boat so we never looked but under the deck was pandoras box of shitty stagnant putrid reminders of three presidential terms... That shower sump box fed by the aforementioned slow leaks needed a hazmat team to remove... While at it we noticed that the very hoses feeding it were full of vile crap. Take it to the next level. Lose every water toting hose on the boat and do em right...
The funk grows fainter... "Hey I know that to be the smell of squid from days gone by..." How the hell can that be? We dig... A solid looking set of hoses and fittings around the fish box weren't as good as they looked. A hairline crack here and a pin hole leak there had been feeding this scent... The boat's bilge drains forward... Got a lot of surface area to cover before it gets there. Hello Clorox... The entire trace gets rubbed into "eat off clean" surface...
Hey those coffin sized bridge boxes could do with some love so they get a purification of their own. Tackle drawers can hold smell. The central vacume... a hell of a nasty collector of stink.
Walked on this afternoon...Smelled only fresh laid 5200 and some of the stuff they're preparing the floor with...

[Deep C]

Start with the obvious rotten wall...

Tear it out and clean behind...

Not just behind the cabinets... In the wires too...

And can't forget under the floors and carpet...

Even iin "Dry" places

[hunt4fish]

Looking good Deep,keep the pictures coming,gonna be a sweet ride when you're done.