Keel and bottom paint A few days later finds the boat mostly bottom painted. The keel remains unpainted because additional work is going to be required to remove the old, uncured filler a previous boatyard used to repair prior damage. The stuff is elastic so it can’t be ground out. We’ll see what the vendor […]
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Haulout Day: The Big Reveal
Today was the big reveal! Today was the day to pull Swoose out of the water so that the keel could be repaired and the bottom repainted. We got on the boat at 7:15 am and had her at the lift a few minutes after 8:00 am. The haulout was — thankfully! — uneventful. The […]
Note about toilet and coolant hose!
I can’t say often enough how happy we are to have a working toilet and a working engine! Yesterday, we motored over to the pump-out station to clear the holding tank and with the new vent, I could actually hear the air being drawn into the tank as I pumped it out. So much joy […]