For Sale

The Dalloway is officially for sale.  We are looking for $ 3,000.00. I'll be shutting down this blog once she's found a new home, and starting up a new one.  I sure hope we can find the right owner for her. 

LEAKS and Wandering Eyes

I re caulked all the chain plates, but there was still a moisture problem on the aft port bulkhead.  We had to resort to the time honored tradition of dumping buckets of water over the boat until we found the source of the leak, and unsurprisingly, it was around the pump out.  Since we installed that while on the water, I may not be surprised that we had a leak there, but I am a little disappointed that it took us so long to think to check it for leaks.  Added a bit more caulk to that so hopefully when we test it next weekend it will be good to go for a while.  

Meanwhile I have been looking at boats for sale.  For shame. We even went to see a few. Double shame.  

Launch day 2015

I believe this is our earliest launch in the history of ever. 

Anchor Roller

After many years of hoisting the anchor and 30 feet of chain by hand we have decided to install and anchor roller. As anyone who has a Grampian know, everything at the bow is really tight. There's no space to work with at all so we are doing the roller at an offset. Matt has already cut out a section of the toe rail(eek) to allow for the roller. We have a piece of flat aluminum to shim it to height and also some fancy space age plastic of some kind to use as a chafe guard since the anchor rode will be crossing the bow slightly more than it would if it could go through the forward chocks. This should allow me to raise and lower the anchor without assistance so I'm looking forward to that, as it was the only task I can't do. 

Hadn't been down much over the winter as we had a lot of personal issues. We found a lot of water intrusion in the saloon and were freaking out about leaks until we realized the port lights were not dogged down.... So that was an easy fix any way. 

Other pre Launch projects include machining and installing the new rudder post cap I ordered from holland marine, refinishing the wooden tiller, trying to clean the stink out of the water tank, and rebedding the chain plates. They are leaking a bit and the moisture has definitely taken a heavy toll on some of that new woodwork inside. :(