YouTube

I finally signed up for YouTube. Not much to report just yet but posted my first video. It is from September. http://www.youtube.com/user/1973Grampian26

Dalloway is out on the hard now for about three weeks. Opportunity to haul out presented itself on the nastiest saturday we had in October. The bay was muddy from all the rain and storms we had this summer. The channels were marked with floating debris, and nobody was out there but us. The current was running so fast that sailing upriver, we went a mile backwards in two hours.

Anyway, our spot from last year somehow shrank about six inches so we had to try out a couple of other ideas before we found somewhere she would fit. We actually got a phenomenal spot with a view of the water. The boat slipped in the sling though and was bouncing really hard off of the fore stay against the front of the lift. We checked the forward casting, that slmunimum mess that haunts my nightmares,and it looks ok but the fore stay is kinda loose now without very much play left on the turnbuckles. I looked at replacement castings on holland marine. 900.00 for the same item but in polished stainless. Oh how beautiful. Oh how ridiculous.

Launched-better late than never

She went in last Saturday! A smashing success. Still missing a few things but we have the basics.





Like a galley




And a dinette




And a dinghy




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The mast raising

Using a lift with a tall arm, plus four guys, the mast has been raised.




The lift, poised for action
















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Dramatics

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Seriously is this the same boat?

Interior paint is almost done. All that's left for the exterior painting is the nonskid. Goal- be ready to raise the mast by July 4th.









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Coat number two

Is looking pretty sweet. See the shine? Awesome.


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Still too hot

So much for the cool weather. We came down to put on a coat of paint but it is still about ten degrees too hot. We will be sweating into the paint. Decided on how to put doors in the vee berth and the head.

Also found a great article in good old boat about fabricating your own odor proof sewage holding tank out of PVC pipe, which will put a real head back on the list of projects for this fall.




Is anyone interestedin a six foot wooden dinghy as seen under the bow? Free to good home.

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