Of transducers, gelcoat and cleaning
So I took a half day at work today and went to work on my boat. First of all, I stuck my head into the office of the boatyard to see if they had done anything on my boat yet… Continue reading
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Out of the water again…
Back in Friday, everything willing. Though i’ve learnt with boats never to make your plans too firm…
Raw water system fixin’
As seen in my last post, Windchime wasn’t going anywhere without fixing the cooling system. I had established that water was running through the system ok, so I crossed my fingers and waited for the pump to be returned to… Continue reading
Boat Moving Two*
*still not moving As an update to my last post, here is a diagram of the front of the engine – I have drawn a box around where the seawater pump was (this is post removal) And this is… Continue reading
Boat moving day!*
*spoiler – not actually moved. So after my last decision to haul out, I made one last stab at slowing the leak. I slowed it, but realised that there was a ton of water trapped under the new fiberglass, so… Continue reading
Hauling out again
So after 5 days and around $100 of various epoxys, putty and fiberglassing, it’s still leaking. And I got epoxy all in my beard 🙁 So I’ve decided to admit defeat and get hauled out again, ugh. I’m just going… Continue reading
Keep on Leakin’ On
Quick update – after spending around 15-20 hours on the leak, I’ve finally got it down to very little and hope to completely seal it tomorrow. I’ve put layers and layers of different epxoy and even fiberglassed the whole thing… Continue reading
Leak continued
After I finished the last entry, I realised that Canadian Tire had some Water-Weld (by JB Weld) and they closed at 9. So off to Canadian Tire I went. I picked some up and had an attempt at putting some… Continue reading