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?