Tuesday, April 28, 2009
Another slacker weekend for me
My husband spent the weekend on the boat. He worked on the companionway door and the beadboard for the places where the cabin liner was cut away. All three rotten bulkheads have been replaced. I have some great pictures to put up later!
-- Post From My iPhone
Tuesday, April 14, 2009
Portlights/deadlights/bulkhead of doom.
We bought our marine grade plywood in Jersey, at 98.00 for fir faced in 3/4 inches in a four by eight piece we felt like we got a pretty darn good deal. We're not ready to put it in yet, not till next weekend, but the lumber yard has funny hours so we wanted to be sure we could get there while they were open.
This weekend the main order of business was to finally sort out those windows. Matt had tried sheets of acrylic held up with just 4200 but we didn't allow enough time for it to set and they popped off under test pressure. We went back to lowe's and bought stainless steel bolts nuts and washers, large sheets of lexan at 68 dollars a sheet, and polyurethane caulk. We also had to search high and low for butyl tape. Wound up going to some huge crazy rv superstore in Swedesboro to find it.
Matt used a router to cut the windows to size (I think this has to be the third batch of windows he cut out) and we held them in place and drilled through the lexan and the fiberglass, then lined the holes on the cabin with the butyl tape, bolted the lexan in place over that and finger tightened the bolts to compress the butyl tape into a gasket. He used the butyl tape to make little gaskets for each individual bolt. Then we put masking tape around the windows and applied the polyurethane caulk. By that time it was after ten pm, and pitch black. We're hoping everything is OK down there, as we were too afraid to put the tarp back over the cabin for fear of it getting into the caulk and making a huge mess.
The bulkhead should be the next order of business, and from everything we read on the Grampian owner's website we can do it with the mast up if we loosen all the stays.
Can't wait for Saturday so we can find out how things are holding up . . .
This weekend the main order of business was to finally sort out those windows. Matt had tried sheets of acrylic held up with just 4200 but we didn't allow enough time for it to set and they popped off under test pressure. We went back to lowe's and bought stainless steel bolts nuts and washers, large sheets of lexan at 68 dollars a sheet, and polyurethane caulk. We also had to search high and low for butyl tape. Wound up going to some huge crazy rv superstore in Swedesboro to find it.
Matt used a router to cut the windows to size (I think this has to be the third batch of windows he cut out) and we held them in place and drilled through the lexan and the fiberglass, then lined the holes on the cabin with the butyl tape, bolted the lexan in place over that and finger tightened the bolts to compress the butyl tape into a gasket. He used the butyl tape to make little gaskets for each individual bolt. Then we put masking tape around the windows and applied the polyurethane caulk. By that time it was after ten pm, and pitch black. We're hoping everything is OK down there, as we were too afraid to put the tarp back over the cabin for fear of it getting into the caulk and making a huge mess.
The bulkhead should be the next order of business, and from everything we read on the Grampian owner's website we can do it with the mast up if we loosen all the stays.
Can't wait for Saturday so we can find out how things are holding up . . .
Saturday, April 11, 2009
Friday, April 10, 2009
Cushions and playing hookey
We both have off today but I couldn't face the possible disaster down there so matt went without me. I'm stating home to work on the cushions. So far we have one down and about twelve to go.
We found an upholstery shop at Berlin auction, a giant indoor outdoor flea market. They custom cut foam for all the berths including lining the hull walls for only 300.00. I bought 20 yards of heavy fabric to cover it with. We stuffed it all into my mothers monster suv. On the way home we had a mr wizard type experience where the giant mass of foam stuffed in the back and middle of the car muffled all sound so we had to shout to hear each other. Very cool.
Anyway I'm working on the quarter berth but cut it a little too short so now I have to do some improvising.
Matt is supposed to make templates today to line the cabin with bead board where it was cut away. We also need to figure something out to replace the foam that used to fill the gap between the bulkheads and the cabin ceiling. Booyah. Could there be anything else? Oh wait, there is. We have some questionable wood holding the chainplates the hold the stays for the mastabd a possible leak around the rudder.
-- Post From My iPhone
We found an upholstery shop at Berlin auction, a giant indoor outdoor flea market. They custom cut foam for all the berths including lining the hull walls for only 300.00. I bought 20 yards of heavy fabric to cover it with. We stuffed it all into my mothers monster suv. On the way home we had a mr wizard type experience where the giant mass of foam stuffed in the back and middle of the car muffled all sound so we had to shout to hear each other. Very cool.
Anyway I'm working on the quarter berth but cut it a little too short so now I have to do some improvising.
Matt is supposed to make templates today to line the cabin with bead board where it was cut away. We also need to figure something out to replace the foam that used to fill the gap between the bulkheads and the cabin ceiling. Booyah. Could there be anything else? Oh wait, there is. We have some questionable wood holding the chainplates the hold the stays for the mastabd a possible leak around the rudder.
-- Post From My iPhone
Monday, April 6, 2009
Portlight fail
It took a day and a half to get all the rotten plywood down from the cabin walls. The remaining half day just wasn't enough time to cut the acrylic for the windows and get them up with 4200. It was supposed to rain last night so we had to make a late run to walmart for a giant tarp to cover the gaping giant holes in the cabin. Not being great with tarps we created sort of a wrinkled ball tied down over the boat. I hope it stayed on last night. It wasn't the easiest thing to try to engineer in full dark.
We lost a lot of time gossiping, too. Our neighbor sold his boat on eBay to this guy: garthkiser.com. Based on his blog he and his girlfriend appear to be professional knockabouts with a fantasy of sailing. The club launched the boat for them but they had a ten minute sailing lesson, no dinghy to go ashore, no food , no water, and no acquaintances in the area. They had bicycles they took aboard also for land transportation. Just to be clear the boat they bought is 27 feet long. Good luck you two, hope you make it wherever you are headed.
-- Post From My iPhone
We lost a lot of time gossiping, too. Our neighbor sold his boat on eBay to this guy: garthkiser.com. Based on his blog he and his girlfriend appear to be professional knockabouts with a fantasy of sailing. The club launched the boat for them but they had a ten minute sailing lesson, no dinghy to go ashore, no food , no water, and no acquaintances in the area. They had bicycles they took aboard also for land transportation. Just to be clear the boat they bought is 27 feet long. Good luck you two, hope you make it wherever you are headed.
-- Post From My iPhone
Saturday, April 4, 2009
Cushions
We bought 300.00 worth of foam for the berths. Good thing I can sew.
-- Post From My iPhone
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