Well, it's been a little over a month and the glow of boat ownership is still there. So to though are the aching muscles! At this point, Luna Sole is up on the hard eagerly awaiting her next splash (as are her owners!). I have been working on re-doing the teak on the rub rails, trail boards, and bow sprit. It's time consuming work of heating the old varnish and scraping it section by section but there is something about seeing the warm teak beneith all that goop that makes me smile. I'm about 75% there and hope to finish those sections this weekend. Tom has been working on a more smelly problem. We found that the holding tank (original to the boat) was cracked. So, he removed that and we started scrubbing away years of "poo"- yuck! Not a job for the faint of nose let me tell ya! Then, we discovered there was a leak in the pump-out so some of the poo has also made it way behind the molded fiberglass in the head. After several weekends of scrubbing and opening more cans of worms, Tom has cut out a section of the head floor and the sole outside the head. Now the real scrubbing can begin. He was watching the DVD of "how to do fiberglass repair" work last night. This should be interesting to watch.
Our hope is that soon, there will be no smell and we can move on to the other things on the survey list that require immediate attention before we launch. We were optimistic for July 4th but it looks like it may be a few more weeks after that until it really happens.
Until that time, we work all day, make sure to never miss sunset and toast the adventure each evening with a sundowner! Cheers!
