Yesterday we did not touch a paint brush… no painting, no blasting…. not even a thought of it. Yeah… really! Yesterday we got to stand back, look at her and say “We made it”, the hull is finally all painted (well… almost, there is always an almost, but for the…
Three consecutive days of sandblasting appears to be our limit… we are exhausted and sore, but happy. Three days of sandblasting means I have been in the suit for 15 hours and we can then double that time adding the clean up and painting. Mark is also taking on a…
Yep… I have a secret. I actually enjoy sandblasting. I know, “sandblasting” and “enjoy” do not belong in the same sentence, so let me explain. With the right equipment, sandblasting is really not that bad at all; I actually find it has something relaxing for the mind. It is one…
Youen is the sons of lifelong friends, neighbors from my childhood. Friendship that travels through generations is something special. Our grandmothers were friends, I am friends with his parents and I have true affection for this young man and his brothers. Whether its for hard work of fun time, Youen…
Pretty much anything!!! It was one very long day (it always is and that’s what is so dreadful about sandblasting/painting a steel boat)…. Up at 5am, work started at 7am and ended at 18 hours later. After a short 3.5 hours of sleep we were back at painting and on…
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…
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…