Everything is coming together

The water tank is installed and plumbed, the sink and faucet are installed and plumbed except for one fitting that just came in the mail today. The curtain tracks are in and the curtains are up. The running lights are hooked up and Matt fabricated and installed an instrument bezel for a cockpit light, the switch for the light and the running lights, and the depth meter. He also sewed the new halyards onto the ends of the old ones and put them over the mast so we now have completely rope halyards. He even put eye splices on with all new shackles. We have a lot of old blocks, some very high quality old ones, some mediocre newer ones. All but one appear salvagable. The chainplates are back on and bedded in butyl tape, but we didn't re-attach the shrouds yet. Matt also installed the sole in the head and I painted it with alkyd enamel. He ran the wire for the transponder for the depth finder, and installed the puck up at the front of the keel.

Last but not least, the bottom paint is now on, and I shined up the hull with vertglass.

I finished the curtains

Booyah!

Fairing Compound Finally Going on

Matt applied 4200, barrier coat, and fairing compound to our gnarly keel joint in that order, this weekend. It's looking pretty flat now, so if we can get down there some evenings after work this week we might be able to finish it up, but with work and all we probably won't be down this weekend.

The clouds rolled in though, and things started to look bad, then worse, then extremely wet.

So we did some stuff inside instead. I added some more spar eurethane to the new bulkheads, teak oil to the old ones (until I ran out), put in the quarterberth cushions. Matt wired the bow running lights and would have done some plumbing but we can't get the through hull for the sink drain attached because the stowage is too tight and it won't turn to screw in.

And last but not least, I got the name decal attached. It was dark so the picture looks a little creepy.

Electrical is not my area

Good thing matt had lots of practice when we were working on our house. He fabricated a little hinged panel for the fuse box. Nothing hooked up yet but the bilge, but that's really the most esssential thing right?


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It's allliiive

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The bilge pump

Is installed and so is the float switch, well, almost. We got a battery and a fuse box and now all that's left is to get all the wires in. Meanwhile my little job was to finish painting the window frames and the bootstripes.


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WTF

We got a package today.


It is a ten foot piece of PVC with tape over the ends, containing my curtain tracks.

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