Well, as of today our boat is no longer a glorified power boat. With the help of our dads, we managed to set our mast up. We are now officially a sailboat. more pics will follow, but here is a quickie one that Joel took from his phone.
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First time floating to her new home
more update pics and videos
The above two pictures are courtesy of Deb and Tim I also want to make note of a few friends websites. The picture above is of Kasey. He is a cool guythat is refitting his boat the same time we are. He has been giving me a hand lately from time to time. This picture…
And She’s Back in the Water Where She Belongs…
Saturday, I met Joel and Bob back at Boulder Marina. The Pascagoula Run was no longer sitting in the cradle that has held her for the past ten years; she was up in the slings, and Bob was applying the last few coats of bottom paint to the keel. The sun was baking down on…
parts are in!!!!!!!
The parts have finally arrived from Marina Grobenbrode! we will be lifting friday to work on the bottom of the keel and launching on saturday!!!!we will be floating soon!!
Still waiting for parts…
It is joel this time with a boatload of pictures from my “camera” aka cell phone. the boat is officially watertight. All the thruhulls are mounted, the hull is shiny, the transducer thru hull is in, the engine runs good, the prop is on, and i even have the frame rails for the nav station…
Spit N Shine :)
Yesterday, the boat got two coats of penetrol. She also got about 5 years worth of grime scrubbed off of the deck (the poor thing was neglected for 10 years). We also cleaned and flushed out the anchor locker. Below are some pics of the boat; the first is a before-the-penetrol shot, the latter two…
Isn’t she a beaut?!
The bottom paint is finally on! All that’s left before we can put her in the water is to paint the small patches that were under the cradle pads, put in the new thru hulls, sand and paint the very bottom of the keel, and apply a thorough amount of poly-glow. But she’s looking pretty…
“Why, that’s a [boat] of a different color!”
Well, we did something yesterday none of us thought we would be able to accomplish: we put on all 6 coats of barrier paint! She now has four layers of gray, and two layers of white; then, on Saturday, Joel and I will put on two layers of black bottom paint. The Pascagoula Run will…
Final layers of epoxy and glass; we’re ready to paint!
Well, Joel spent another weekend at the boat while I was finishing my last two papers and finals for summer semester. Now, I’m done with school for 2 months, and Joel finished applying a coat of resin to the hull, glassing the rudder, and faring the keel. Wednesday, we’re both off of work, and the…