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Sand and shape, sand and shape
There isn’t as much to report on this week because almost all our time has been dedicated to repairing the boat. We now have a monstrous hole in our starboard forward hull! You can see into Owen’s cabin AND the starboard bow locker, at the same time, from the outside. I will try to detail what we have done for the repair. Kevin spent a great deal of time trying determining the amount of damange and smoothing out the outside hull to be used as a form to create a mold from. While he was doing this, I continued to dismantled Owen’s cabin, including the shelving, his bed and the…
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Back to the boat and the boatyard
I am still waiting for Halyna to update the blog on what she and the others were doing for the two weeks that I was home working. I do know, that they made their way quickly to West Palm Beach from Nassau just after I left. They spent the majority of the time there doing chores, restocking the fridge, doing schoolwork and biding their time until I returned. They moved the boat up to Fort Pierce the day before I got back so that we were just one day away from Port Canaveral where we were to have our boat hauled out to do the hull repair. I returned on…
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Patched up and heading north
Sorry this has been a long time coming. It has been a doozy of a couple weeks. I am currently in Victoria doing some work and Kevin is at the boat with the kids taking it to Florida and the boatyard in preparation for our haul out date on March 12th. After my last post, we had the exciting/nerve wracking experience of beaching our boat so that we could do some repairs to the outside cracks that went below the water line. Once we realized that two of the larger cracks inside were actually weeping water, we knew it was necessary for us to patch the outside as well. In…
