Yard 3...

[Deep C]

Well Hell! Long day today. Spent hours cleaning the little strip of white before our boot stripe. Acid, acetone, sand and do again. Then the wind shifted and the boat next to us though tented started covering us with their bottom paint dust...
I did some grinding of my own and slapped a first coat of paint on her...

The rudder thing is turning into a *****. Boss got all excited about a custom set of stainless ones then reality set in. God gracious they are expensive! Tripple the price of "stock" ones... We already have established that there is fundamental flaws with stock type and he sucked it up and ordered the good ones. Hell even I wanted to cry. What should have been a simple yard quickie is gonna be 10 grand or more before we get out...

Oh well ... I have nasal pasages clogged with bottom grindings and I need to get a shower on me. Pulling the plug on yarding for most of tomorrow. Gonna go fishing and hopefully the boss can relax a bit more...

[Docked Wages]

LOVE it!

[Deep C]

Which part do you love? Where I look like a Smurf with clogged nasal passages? Where I fell out of the tower? Or Where the boss is getting his lungs sucked out his wallet?

I actually enjoy yard trips cause when they are done you can see and feel how far you have progressed...

[Deep C]

Fished today... a couple dolphin and sails and a hand full of bonitos kept us amused and made for a fine day... Work continued on the big boat even in my absence... More 3M perfect III laid around... Ongoing getting steering end of things rebuilt. New strainers went on and thru hulls in...

[Robja]

Congrats on catching some fish today DEEP SMURF

[Deep C]

Actually it was more a cross between smurf and coal miner... The bottom being ground next to ours was black... Hell if the light was just right I had tones that looked like a big marlin raising to a rigger... Except of course the red eyes...

[Docked Wages]

Which part do you love? Where I look like a Smurf with clogged nasal passages? Where I fell out of the tower? Or Where the boss is getting his lungs sucked out his wallet?

I actually enjoy yard trips cause when they are done you can see and feel how far you have progressed...

Love the boat and looking forward to more pictures of how well she shines up!!!

[Deep C]

New Years blitz this morn... I laid into her at a blistering pace. Got the water line paint build up ground down on strboard side and stern. Gotta love a grinder in one hand and sander in the other when the boss walks up and sees you gettin it on what most other people take off as a holiday. Even laid a coat of paint through that section. So I'm full coated over whole bottom and done with the vertical surfaces...
Rain closing in so I shut down that operation and got right on the sounder... Last year we added a top shelf transducer that leaves no questions as to whats under us. Temp sensor went away so Airmar sent seperate probe and paddle wheel that we can stuff in place of one our unused ones. Saves blasting out that five inch beast that is installed more firmly than the hull itself.

I don't do this stuff though for the boss. When I take a job on a boat the boat gets my undivided attention. I bond to the boats, They become part of who and what I am. Its how I tick. When one of the boats gets not 100% perfect, I take it hard. We have a goal with this boat. I've said it before... We want her to be the single very best 43-45 Viking express on the water... Takes time but we're getting there...

[Deep C]

Word to the wise... If you want to get a lot done wait for it to get warm... Spent a few hours cleaning the white strip between bottom and boot then with artist brush touched up to make a nice smooth line. Again doing that in the cold was kinda like smearing paste... Micron 66 does not run real good when it drops below sixty degrees.
New temp probe for depthfinder is in. The unit itself though now wont read. Not sure if the unit caused the probe to fail or the probe failure on the big transducer caused unit to fail. Furuno themselves is right on it!.

[Deep C]

The frost has kept us off our game and has timing screwed up. Bootstripe and bottom paint go on til we get some warm. Touch the hull and it feels like a freezer plate... Took the riggers down today for full buff and heavy wax. I busted out my special drill bit and started workin on bringing the props to a shine... Gonna propspeed em along with the rudders when they get here... Hopefully that will get my 28 cruise back and leave it back... Drop some fuel burn too.