Fast forward to October- so busy working on Luna Sole that I did not take time to blog until now. Progress on her is.....going. We were not ready to launch by the end of August, so we decided to save the launch chips, use them for a new holding tank and keep working. Some wonderful new friends and the marina took pity on us and would ask us to go sailing with them (Buffett got to come too!). From time to time, we took them up on the offer!
To update our work...I continued (and still am) working on the teak. I have re-finished from bare wood everything on the boat at this point except the taft rail, eyebrows, doors & hand rails. We are planning to remove all those pieces to make some repairs to leaks and cracked wood so they are a winter garage project. I removed the traveller and taft rail last weekend- why does something that should take an hour take 2 days in boat land and who knew I could actually fit in down inside both lazarettes?
Tom decided to remove the "zinc" from the outside of the hull a few months ago to replace it. When he took it off, water poured out from the keel. hum...thinking that's not supposed to happen. Sigh..here we go again. So, he drilled a bunch more holes to let everything drain, then "hooked her up to life support" with hoses all over and a shop vac. After hours spent online and with the Bayfield owners group, we determined that 1) the water probably came from our interior hose cleaning efforts (opps) and cracks in the bilge and 2) that the "zinc" was actually at one time a lightening system that had a long piece of copper or bronze on it. Opps again... We decided to work on fixing the bilge cracks first so that no future water can get down into our soon-to-be dry keel. Then, after sitting this winter with a vacum pump on her, we will seal up the outside holes and re-install the proper plates for the lightning system next spring before launch.
It took multiple weekends to get all the hardware re-installed back up on the new bow sprit. Just last weekend Tom was installing the anchor rollers. (Note: he is a messy one with the goopy, sticky white marine glue stuff (my technical name for 3M stuff) and needs constant supervision).
We, sadly, removed the sails from Luna at the beginning of October- she won't need them this year and found that the furlers were jammed- yet another boat piece in our garage that needs servicing- what a surprise!
We are going down again this weekend and for as long as we can work. The new launch date? May 1- on or before!
To update our work...I continued (and still am) working on the teak. I have re-finished from bare wood everything on the boat at this point except the taft rail, eyebrows, doors & hand rails. We are planning to remove all those pieces to make some repairs to leaks and cracked wood so they are a winter garage project. I removed the traveller and taft rail last weekend- why does something that should take an hour take 2 days in boat land and who knew I could actually fit in down inside both lazarettes?
Tom decided to remove the "zinc" from the outside of the hull a few months ago to replace it. When he took it off, water poured out from the keel. hum...thinking that's not supposed to happen. Sigh..here we go again. So, he drilled a bunch more holes to let everything drain, then "hooked her up to life support" with hoses all over and a shop vac. After hours spent online and with the Bayfield owners group, we determined that 1) the water probably came from our interior hose cleaning efforts (opps) and cracks in the bilge and 2) that the "zinc" was actually at one time a lightening system that had a long piece of copper or bronze on it. Opps again... We decided to work on fixing the bilge cracks first so that no future water can get down into our soon-to-be dry keel. Then, after sitting this winter with a vacum pump on her, we will seal up the outside holes and re-install the proper plates for the lightning system next spring before launch.
It took multiple weekends to get all the hardware re-installed back up on the new bow sprit. Just last weekend Tom was installing the anchor rollers. (Note: he is a messy one with the goopy, sticky white marine glue stuff (my technical name for 3M stuff) and needs constant supervision).
We, sadly, removed the sails from Luna at the beginning of October- she won't need them this year and found that the furlers were jammed- yet another boat piece in our garage that needs servicing- what a surprise!
We are going down again this weekend and for as long as we can work. The new launch date? May 1- on or before!
