Tuesday December 15: Hull Painted is Complete!!

The prep work is definitely the hardest part of painting the hull.

Sanding the entire area to be painted and then wiping down with acetone.

Steve did a nice job :-)  You can see the mud-embedded paint that is the problem we are looking to fix.

The "before" picture

The "after" picture

The humidity is really not conducive to using this paint but ... no choice if we want to get this painting done. The later in the day the better so that's what we did.

The pictures don't really do justice to how much better it looks. The best part is it will stay white with minimal cleaning now for a couple of year.

Definitely glad this job is done!

A fuzzy picture to give Steve credit for cleaning up the prop as well as changing the shaft zinc and the rudder zincs.

Credit to me :-) for having the zincs in our spare parts bin!








Steve's sister Terri and husband Scott came down from Bradenton last night to visit and spend the night. They brought a torture game with them called "Can't Stop" - everyone won a game except me. I pleaded being brain dead from working on the boat. Not sure they believed it .... regardless it was nice to see them again. It's been a while since we've been able to get together.


The area here is apparently home for many gopher tortoises. There are a dozen signs across the street from our condo indicating the location of the tortoise burrows. I'm assuming this means to stay away!

Kind of interesting creatures. For more info on them, click here.

Particularly interesting is how the sex of the young hatchlings is determined: by the temperature of the ground!!