It’s been a fast week on the water! You already know about the work we’ve completed and the jobs that are in progress. This will be a quick recap of the last 2 days.
We spent most of Thursday working on painting jobs. I did the second coat of yellow paint marking the footage on the anchor chain. We also did the first coat of colour on the bow and stern. I thought the off white we choice would be quite different from the white primer but it didn’t really work out that way. The deck does look great so we’re very happy with the colour!
Today (Friday) was very busy on the pier. First thing (around 8:30am) a good sized pleasure boat (old style motorboat) came onto the pier just in front of us. Mark was already on the pier waiting for the air conditioning repair man to show up, so he helped this boat with their lines. Their docking was interesting – they basically used the wooden platforms against the pier as a fender. It wasn’t the best idea. They came in hard, slightly damaging their hull and the wooden platform. Not a great way to start the day!
We’ve been having issues with the air conditioning on our boat since last year so we finally managed to find someone to take a look at it. The guy arrived around 8:30am and his first assessment is that we need a new compressor. He will try to hunt one down for us – our system is quite old so hopefully he’ll have some luck.
The big painting job moved forward today – we got the final coat (of 3) down on 2 areas – the bow and the port side aft deck. It looks amazing and I can’t wait to see the entire deck freshly painted! Crimson Kathryn will look like a brand new sailboat!!
Crimson Kathryn and her crew 