Work continues on the damaged keel. As a reminder, the keel kissed a rock in the Victoria, B.C. harbor in 2019. This was not the first time the keel has found a rock. I know of at least two prior incidents of keel-rock contact. As we dug into the keel, we found that an unknown […]
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Update on Boat Repairs
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 […]
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 […]