An email from the cap'n

[anigo]

To an "away" member of the crew...

It's unbelievable how much water can fall over a couple of days but it feels like it could have been snow so I guess I should think we are fortunate ... still we managed to do the finishing epoxy work, paint topside, re-sand and re-paint topsides after the original paint repair got trashed by rainfall (ie: we did it twice :-( ), fine sand to 1500 the new paint, compound, fine polish and wax/buff the entire topside, fair/paint topsides cove stripe (green stuff), wetsand (400 grit) and steel wool burnish below waterline, grind out a couple of topside areas that then needed repair as we missed them the 1st time around, and re-epoxy and repaint ... most of the above was done waiting for it to rain, doing it in the rain or hoping it would dry out after the latest bout of rain ... been a very frustrating couple of weeks to say the least ... good news is that as of tonight we are 96.2% done, last bit of finishing a topside repair to be hopefully completed tomorrow assuming temperature allow it to thaw out and 'go off' by mid-afternoon when it is supposed to start raining again, if I get a couple hours of non-rain I might even be able to paint this repair area and call it done in time to get wet on Fri ... not that any of us care about racing on the weekend cause it's *so fucking cold* anyway ... global warming HA HA HA


So, for the month of May, there's been almost two feet one foot (edit: my conversion isn't so good) of rain fall in Nova Scotia. As I sit typing this the temperature is five degrees above freezing.

I tells ya, I'm movin' south.

Comments

[64tbird.livejournal.com]

We'll have room.

It's going to be 80's F all weekend. And sun, boy do we have sun!

[anigo.livejournal.com]

Yes, but you don't have water. (And I mean in the horizontal form, not in the vertical form.) I checked out Colorado's sailing community. They *actually* have one but they're all such little boats. Mostly dingies with none of the keelboats I've seen over 30'. Lots of J24's which are sweet little boats (and one I'd like to own myself one day), but when they say size doesn't matter, they're lying. Ya need big water and big boats.

[kyra-ojosverdes.livejournal.com]

So, um, does all that have to be done every year?

[anigo.livejournal.com]

Well, usually there are always a couple of boat bites that need to be fixed and repainted - though usually they don't have to be done twice. Every year's different. This year there was some water damage to the foredeck and it needed to be fixed. Two years ago the whole inside of the hull was stripped and coated with a water repellant. (That was an icky job!) But the fine sanding, the buffing, the waxing - that gets done every year.

Fun stuff, what?