Back at the Home Dock!

YAYY!!!!  We are finally done waking up at 0530 every day to get every ounce of daylight out of our yard period.  It worked out well, we did what we needed to do and even a little extra - the last two days were spent cleaning the interior and buffing the hull.  Here's a few 'before and after':

                                These ones are just - wow!

Here's one of the prop and completely rotted off zinc anode.  That's really important, because the zinc anode corrodes before the bronze prop, we put a brand new one on there on purpose, which is why they are known as sacraficial zinc anodes.  And we buffed our prop blades and shaft - no more drag on this baby, going to be SUPER fast!

Ever wonder why people with huge muscles are 'buff'?  That's because they do a lot of this:

called buffing!  That buffer is sooo heavy and hard to control!  I only lasted about 3 hours, Matt did all the rest himself.  No bluff!

Here's another set.  If you look closely, you may be able to tell that there is a slight difference in the red paint about a foot below the waterline- that's because on top of the two coats of Trinidad SP anti-fouling paint we put on, we added a generic coat of ablative paint.  Ablative paint flakes off when we wash barnacles and scum that have grown on it off.  Since the waterline is a real problem area, there was no need to go any further, it will just make sure our anti-fouling paint lasts longer.   

An item of concern came up when we got splashed at low tide, the brand new very expensive all-in-one tacktic wireless depth sounder/speed log/wind indicator didn't seem to be working.  It was reading a lot of mud, and there is no way to adjust the gain :-(  It seemed to be working a lot better after we got underway back toward the house, but we're not too pleased.  It doesn't seem to be as sensitive to depth changes or display speed at very slow speeds.  Is it possible the slings from the travelift messed it up?  I hope not, but the manual isn't very helpful, so we'll try a few phone calls tomorrow.  

Speaking of phone calls, the teak cockpit grating we dropped off to have repaired should be done this week.  We also got an update from Cape Canvas, who finished our spray dodger and a few cushions, which they'll bring back later this week.  Very exciting!  

That's all for right now, time to regroup, get back to organizing our 'punchlist,' and have a celebratory cocktail.