I did nothing today but daughter finished cushions for me .

Thanks Cisco!
I checked it again yesterday, a slow leak but it definitely needs to come out before the Pittwater race in January.
Cheers,
SB

Shoot!! You have a dagger board going through your galley bench!!

I haven't seen the like of that before.

Goodbbye timber Hello silky satin white!

Satin white paint with stained and vanished deck beams and knees it should look good I hope.

Re antifoul between showers and storms. Wanted to do the topsides but the weather gods had other ideas.

Southace
You are going to remove the telly and dodads before you continue painting, aren't you?
I mean you aren't going to paint around them?

gary

Yara said..

southace said..
Some rather expensive sailing bling added to my mighty Icon today!

Nice. However you had a 4:1 advantage, and still have a 4:1 ratio. Were the original pulleys failing? Correction- you had 4:1, now 5:1. Not a huge difference though.

It all runs nice and smooth now so a huge difrence and I'm extremely happy with my new bling. I tried servicing the old gear but unfortantly it was well past its used by date.

First coat of silky satin white!
it bright becouse I used a flash.
Now onto the port side dam I won't be able to watch the tv when I do that!

SandS said..
how much paint did you get on your new seats ? are you going to paint the ceiling as well ? do you have too much time on your hands ?

I don't dribble paint ! Yes I wil be painting the cellling if that's what you want to call it. And I don't have that much time on my heads, but when the weathers crap I can't work on other peoples boats that pays , so I do my inside jobs.

SandS said..
ok , so glad its you and not me sanding and painting in a semi confined space , not fun . Good luck with not dribbling

As if! I'm using 180grit wet rub and wax and grease remover worse I get is stuff running down my arms! . I don't dry sand much below decks!

southace said..

garymalmgren said..
Southace
You are going to remove the telly and dodads before you continue painting, aren't you?
I mean you aren't going to paint around them?

gary

I hard wired the 240v through the bulkhead so unfortantly I can't remove the TV but will be wrapping it in plastic when it comes time to paint the port side.
I think some twit has oiled the varnished veneirs so it's becoming a real challenge to sand and get the undercoat to stick so it's real slow progress.
As they say Rome wasn't built in a day!

Metho should lift the furniture oil, and plenty of clean rag, will save a lot of sand paper. Must admit I prefer the wood look

I imagine painting in 47kts would be a bit like this

Sort off but that's way funny free radical. Not my style of paint. I'm way surprised the paint systems I'm using have no smell what so ever. The technology is getting so good.

Went went down to boat to install new vhf radio,aerial, aerial base and cable. Simple job turned into bloody frustration.
Needed to enlarge hole for new cable through transom. Using new Ryobi cordless tightened bit normal way drilled hole slightly small and was reaming edges when the bit fell out into transom . Could see it but out of reach . Thirty minutes to retrieve with borrowed garden rake.
There was an extra red wire coming out of terminal at switchboard for old vhf which disappeared between internal liner and hull. Looked like It was heading to mast so thought I'd better find out what it's doing . One hour later discovered it went nowhere. In the process of crawling around ripped open leg on sharp fibreglass edge , on blood thinners so blood everywhere . Radio operational ,next week reroute depthsounder cable . More holes to drill. Love it.