Sunday, March 4, 2012

Head Sail Furler Repair Complete

Woo Hoo!  Now it unfurls and furls quickly and easily like it's supposed to. 

Always With the Rust

This file was new less than 2 yrs ago and it's stored below
It's simply amazing how quickly stuff starts to break down.  Our sailing friend Wayne says the second something is created/made here on earth it starts to break down and return to it's simplest form.  Including us humans.  Think about that.  Hum?????  We definitely see this accelerated by salt water and sea level conditions. 
 

Stanchion Repair Complete

Can you guess which one?
It's as if our little swift current / strong breeze incident this past Thanksgiving Day never happened. Rigger Sean had his welder fix the stanchion and it looks terrific. In fact we thought it might be a whole new one because it looked so fabulous. Of course this made me realize it was time to put some spit and polish on the rest of the stainless on deck.  (Seriously - the rust is always trying to get a foothold on every little piece of metal.  Argh!)  So that is what I did late morning into early afternoon to work up an appetite. Tom finished his boat project up and whipped up a yummy lunch while I wrapped up my polishing.
Before
After
As we with all "adventures" we learned a lesson or two and are now the wiser.  Our dock neighbor Greg finally had to move his boat to an outer side tie dock because as a single hander he was really struggling with the current, tides and wind getting his boat in and out each time safely.  He is less protected but has more room to maneuver out there.  He says Charleston Harbor is on of the toughest places he's been on the east coast in terms of docking.