Before any extended sailing cruise, it is prudent to pull the boat and put it into dry-dock so that you can clean and paint the bottem, and also get a good look at all the things that have, or could go wrong underwater while you are far out at sea.
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| Sand-blast, re-epoxy, and paint bottom |
This year we pulled the boat at Barber's Marina/Boatyard thinking that it would be a quick in-and-out with some new anti-fouling paint on the bottom. We pulled the boat in January, and she didn't get back into the water until March. When we washed the gunk off the bottom, we discovered hundreds, no, thousands of blisters that had formed on the bottom. All of a sudden we had gone from quick-fix to long term major repair work.
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| Paint on new boot-stripe |
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| Taping and painting boot-stripe |
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| Removing tape to finish boot-stripe |
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| New, slick bottom |
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| Re-glassed hole in Keel |
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| Re-built Max-Prop, feathering prop |
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| Cleaning up, ready to put into water |
