Finally made some progress

[BobM]

Lost season so far. Spread 25 yards of mulch over two weekends in May then got shipped out to Japan for work and lost two more (flew on Sat, arrived on Sun, back on Friday, but too jet lagged the next weekend).

Got the cover pulled about a week back, but didn't get anything major done until this past weekend. I flushed the anti-freeze out of the engine, washed the deck, cleaned the rails and the life lines, washed the topsides and put on two maintenance coats of poliglow. Unfortunately my bottom paint from last year dried out. I use Petit Hydrocoat doing a full coat every two years and just painting the water line and leading edges the other year. This was the other year, but the paint didn't make it. So I am waiting for a new gallon to show up in the mail.

No projects done either, as usual. Still need to mount the new pedestal guard / GPS, install the new VHF and fix the water tank

 

[woodster]

Lost season so far. Spread 25 yards of mulch over two weekends in May then got shipped out to Japan for work and lost two more (flew on Sat, arrived on Sun, back on Friday, but too jet lagged the next weekend).

Got the cover pulled about a week back, but didn't get anything major done until this past weekend. I flushed the anti-freeze out of the engine, washed the deck, cleaned the rails and the life lines, washed the topsides and put on two maintenance coats of poliglow. Unfortunately my bottom paint from last year dried out. I use Petit Hydrocoat doing a full coat every two years and just painting the water line and leading edges the other year. This was the other year, but the paint didn't make it. So I am waiting for a new gallon to show up in the mail.

No projects done either, as usual. Still need to mount the new pedestal guard / GPS, install the new VHF and fix the water tank

given your sail time Bob paint the bottom and go sailing...you can do all of the above in the water excluding the water tank ....save that one for this fall at the end of the season when you haul out and that will give you all winter to do the repair/replacement......

regards

woody

 

[richard965]

on the water tank....why not just install a flexible tank adjacent to the existing tank in the starboard locker? I have one that is new, not used, will sell cheap.

 

[Calypso]

What do you mean paint is dried out?

 

[Swampyankee]

Bob,
One of my neighbors on the docks has a corroded water tank buried under the aft head in his cabin cruiser. Rather than tear out the head to get at it, he opened it up just enough to lay in a bladder tank. I was considering the task of tank replacement after the outlet nipple tore off during an accumulator pump refit, but I managed to thread what was left of the outlet and screw in a barbed fitting. I considered just sawing thru the plywood under the V berth and cutting the top off the tank with a sawzall, chopping out any baffles then dropping a bladder tank in the open tank.

 

[BobM]

bladder

on the water tank....why not just install a flexible tank adjacent to the existing tank in the starboard locker? I have one that is new, not used, will sell cheap.

What size, make and price?

I want to take one more look at it to be sure it isn't a crack at the nipple, but a bladder was certainly a viable option.

 

[BobM]

Just add water...

Painted the bottom today and worked on my new pedestal guard project. Bummer. I need to have two more holes drilled in the tubing to mount it. I put the old guard in temporarily so I could mount the table for the fourth.

 

[BobM]

Update

Found a machine shop to do the new holes in the guard and have a launch date of "sometime this week" so...progress of a sort. Also ordered 104 feet of Samson XLS from this site to be my new main halyard. If it arrives in three or four days I have a friend who can splice on the shackle and go up the mast for me. The old one chaffed partially through the cover and then snapped in high winds.

 

[Calypso]

Bob you can drill stainless with a cobalt drill bit available at any good hardware store. I was amazed at how it went through like it was wood. A little oil helps and not so fast on the drill speed.