Yard Update the First 10 Days

After ten days on the hard, things are going well.  Maybe a little too well.  They are moving incredibly quickly and if we are not careful, they will finish their projects before we finish ours.  However, we keep hammering away at our projects and making progress.

So far they have removed all the bottom paint back to bare glass. They have identified all of the blisters below the waterline and have opened up most of them already.  They have also begun removing the topside paint and are most of the way through that.  

We have thru bolted the forward life stanchions and are waiting for the workers to break for the weekend in order to waterproof the new holes.  We have also begun taking all the paint and filler that has been applied to the inside of the forward gunnels.  This has been an eyesore on Sari Timur for as long as we have owned her, as most of it has cracked and flaked off.  It has always been fixed by using more bog and paint.  Some of it is nearly a half inch thick in places.  We are grinding it back to bare glass and will put two new layers of epoxy glass on using peel ply.  This should not only strengthen the gunnels but should leave a much better surface to hold the paint. 

We are also tackling some interior varnish work in the main salon while we are off the boat. 

At first we were bummed that we didn’t make it to Peñesco or San Carlos to do this work.  However, looking back now we are getting very professional work done and not experiencing the heat wave that is hitting the mainland.  Temps there are plus 100 where here they are pretty much sub 80.  Plus we have the added bonus that San Diego is only about two hours away so we can get supplies pretty easily.

We will keep you informed as work progresses.