She's home.

Wednesday November 14, 2012

Finally after all summer in the water we hauled our boat out of the water and brought her home.  Mike found a good deal on a trailer that was made exactly for our boat.  Mike, Jimmy, Scott, and Steve went down, pulled it out of the water and brought her home. This is going to make working on her easier this winter, by Spring we should have a new looking boat.

Now she needs to be cleaned and wrapped for the winter so we can start working on the interior. 



Clean up

Saturday November 17, 2012



So after bringing the boat home she needed to be cleaned. The worse part of cleaning her was getting the barnacles off...EWWWW!

A barnacle is a type of arthropod belonging to infraclass Cirripedia in the subphylum Crustacea, and is hence related to crabs and lobsters. Barnacles are exclusively marine, and tend to live in shallow and tidal waters, typically in erosive settings. They are sessile (non-motile) suspension feeders, and have two nektonic (active swimming) larval stages. Around 1,220 barnacle species are currently known. The name "Cirripedia" is Latin, meaning "curl-footed".Barnacles are encrusters, attaching themselves permanently to a hard substrate. The most common, "acorn barnacles" (Sessilia), are sessile, growing their shells directly onto the substrate. The order Pedunculata ("goose barnacles" and others) attach themselves by means of a stalk.

Also known as gross crunchies that you have to scrape off the bottom of your boat...YUCK!!

This is what I got to scrape off...now the driveway crunches when you walk around the boat.

Mike power washing the sides of the boat to get the stains off from sitting in the water all summer.

Finally a nice clean hull with no dirt or nasty barnacles.

Adventures of Hurricane Sandy

October 30, 2012

Well we all made it through hurricane Sandy safely. At home we still have power and only had a few tree branches fell. Nothing to bad.
The boat on the other hand we have to wait and see.
We were down at the boat at 11 am this morning during high tide and the piers had a good 6 inches of water on them. Making it difficult to get down to the boat.

 

Pictures of the pier and finger pier that were covered with water.

When we finally were able to go down to the boat around 5 pm later that day this is what we found...

Water--a LOT of water in the engine compartment, thank goodness for working bilge pumps.

A little rubbing on the boat and on the dock. Guess we left our mark.

Some damage to the exterior wood, but we were going to replace that anyway.

Here the water was on its way down but still not as low as it should be. Water that high made it very difficult to get in and out of the boat.

The sky after the storm, still looks nasty.

After all of the worry and flooding the boat made it safely through Hurricane Sandy. Now to get her home so we can work on her this winter....anyone want to help?

Sunday cruise

Michael Jr came to visit us for two weeks. We decided that the best thing to do on a warm Sunday afternoon is to go out on the boat. So Mike, Michael, Michele, Kyra, Jimmy, Sophia, Jeff and I all went out. It was a great time. Mine took us out and we dropped anchor, we all swam and fished, and swam some more. Jimmy had a great time swimming but every time he got away from the boat someone had to go get him and bring him closer to the boat. We finally got smart and tied a 50 foot rope to him, so when he got tired we could pull him in. That rope ended up being the life line for all of us to get back to the boat.
After lunch we went fishing. Jeff was the first person to catch a fish on the boat but Michael was right behind Jim catching one of his own. It was such a great afternoon.

Jeff caught the first fish on the boat. Way to go Jeff.

Michael was not too far behind on catching his first fish ever.

Sophia CHEESEing for the camera.

Michele and Sophia doing a little swimming.

Jeff trying to help Kyra up the ladder on the side of the boat

If you look close you can see that they are all hanging on to the rope tied to the back of the boat.

It started by tying the rope to Jimmy's life jacket so we could pull him in when he got tired of swimming.

Everyone else just wanted to hang on.

Michele, Sophia, and Michael in the back ground

Kyra trying to get the water out of her eyes

Jimmy trying to stay afloat

Jeff pulling the kids in

Michael and Jimmy hanging out on their boogie boards.

Kyra trying to get a worm out of the cup so Mike can put it on her fishing pole.

Kyra--the CHEESE ball

Jimmy and Michael again

Jeff--I think that one is too small even for an appetizer.

Another work day

Wow we did a lot of stuff today.
Fuel sender- done
Fresh water pump- done
Stereo and speakers- installed
Caulk around the hatch and railings- done
Put on new registration and fishing stickers- done
Clean- done
Clean-done
And did I mention clean?- done

Mike climbed into the engine compartment to hook up the fuel sender and the fresh water pump.
After everything was done and everything was cleaned up we even had a little visitor…a cute little bird that was hanging out on our dock line.

WOHOO--after replacing the water pump and letting the batteries fully charge the water FINALLY works!

Mike thinking about what needs to be done in the engine compartment.

Mike playing with the radio after getting it put in.

A little birdy came by to hang out.

Mike in the engine compartment.

Mike trying to get into the engine compartment.

Cushions are in

Finally got the foam for the cushions for the table and the v-berth. Now time for Michele and I to get sewing.

Making it ours

Went looking for fabric for the cushions for the interior this weekend. Michele an I found a great patterned piece that had a great corresponding solid. Love it. Can't wait to see it all put together.

A little fun in the sun.

June 9, 2012
After a four hour work party (working around the marina) Mike and I wanted to go out on the boat. Melanie, Rich, Noah, Jeff, and Austin came over to go out with us. It was a good time. Rich went overboard, ok I pushed Rich over. It was a good time. Jeff and Austin also got in the water, and what the big boys do so does the little boy. After a few minutes Noah went into the water with Rich and Jeff. Noah had a great time in the water he has his life jacket and was using our life ring. We decided that next time we bring some fun pool toys to play with.
Everyone had a lot of fun and it was nice and relaxing.

The tornado

June 1, 2012
Fallston, Maryland was hit by a tornado. Mike and I were enjoying dinner at a local restaurant making plans to meet Michele to get stuff for Melanie's baby shower the next day, when the wind started blowing, it started raining, and the lights started to flicker. We were right in the path of the tornado. Although it passed by us at the restaurant with no problems there were a lot of issues in the area.
Luckily the tornado never came near the boat…but you can see the other damage below.