The problem about posting after a long web absence is:where to start? I should start with where have we been? Still here. What have we been doing? Hibernating should be the right word. Strangely this winter has been the mildest my lifetime has known here in eastern Canada. Had the…
Not much progress on the boat these past couple weeks, but I figured I should still check in on the blogging. As planned, Mark, Marley and I went for a road trip to Saguenay, Quebec, where Marley and I competed at the sled dog dryland world championship. We were away…
So I said it, I’m ready to be done with the boat building and get sailing. Unfortunately, we’re not there yet and as I am not keen on giving up we have only one way to go and that’s forward. So be it. Since my return from those four long…
What a long week… Last Saturday we were starting the sandblasting and painting under the deck of the main compartment, nine days later I am typing this from Brittany, I am in Nantes airport boarding room on my way back to Canada. Meanwhile so much has happened, I feel like…
This evening, I’m quite cozy on front of the wood stove with Mack-a-pousse purring on my lap, Murphy is laying on front of the fire and Marley curled on her couch. It’s feeling wintery in here tonight; it has also been feeling wintery outside lately. A week ago we sandblasted…
We are finally done painting our bow section..oouff…but that’s only a little part of the whole, we have to keep going. We are sandblasting and painting the boat in parts, this was a first step of many. Not having a real shelter over the hull, we decides not to blast…
The blasting of the bow started in our gigantic integral sewage tank. That started on Thursday the 27th of August. It seemed to start well, but we soon noticed trouble with the sand regulation. I say noticed but should say suspected because, working in a tight volume, it’s rather hard…
It’s simply too hot to do anything today so I must as well write some more. I realized I didn’t make any mention of how we prepared the boat for the sand blasting and painting phase. Our experience sandblasting the previous boat had been far from a good experience and…
Humm….my last post wasn’t much of an update on our project status. We decided to start the sandblasting and painting process even though conditions are not ultimate, but now is the first stretch of days without rain this summer (and we are already mid-august). The humidity levels are up 98%…
The past few weeks I have been working on all those little details that need to be finalized before sandblasting and painting the interior of the boat: tabs, threw holes, attachment points, chimney…there are lots that need to be though of and it adds up into more work than it…