This is the anchor locker with the TeakGuard on it. Two coats and then I had to book home and cook dinner for the family.
I think it looks pretty good. But let's face the facts as Gunther use to say, that teak is beat the hell up on the bow. It is pretty trashed. Not in the cards for me to put new teak down so I made do. The TeakGuard should protect the teak so maybe this will hold up. Who knows. The rest of the teak on the boat is much thicker so should stand up to more abuse. The bungs aren't the same color as what the French used making the deck. Oh well.
The other problem when I was reefing the decks was the wood is in such worn shape that it would splinter off and so some of the channels have an area that is wider than the rest. 10 foot finish I call it. From 10 feet away it looks good.
I am trying to not get into the mode of "just finish the freaking decks already!" Rushing through, half ass cleaning, etc. Still trying to take my time and do it right. Now to find the time.
Still working on this damn teak deck. Have gone through 1000s not 100s but 1000s of teak bungs so far. I have replaced every single one of them. Fisheries has the best bungs by far. Jamestown's suck ass. I mean bungs. They suck. Really suck.
So the decks now need to have a final sanding and then cleaned. Finally then I can put on TeakGuard and see if all that hard work paid off. Gawd what a job this has turned into. I should have just paid the $14,000 and had them redone. Not. This hasn't been too bad. Just long. Way long.
The chili cook-off is all done. Here are some photos from that weekend.
The prizes!
Afterwards you eat the chili at a big dinner.
Some dinner aboard Appa on Saturday
Samey napping Sunday afternoon!
Ben helping with the dessert
Appa at Port Madison outstation
Engine ran great and no light flickering! Yay! No buzzer either. So far so good.
Our sail over on Friday to Eagle Harbor.
What a day. Friday the 15th we sailed from the breakwater of Shileshole to the entrance of Eagle harbor. Peaceful and gentle. Perfect for the kids and the wife to get reintroduced into the rhythm of the boat.
This is the pile of stuff that Samey wanted to come along.
Did the SYC Port Madison Chili cook off this past weekend. I got eighth place out of 28. Much better showing than last year. While waiting for the start of the cook off, I heard a knocking on Appa's hull. We really don't know anyone at the cook-off and nobody has come up to the boat before but we do have kids and maybe they did something. Turns out it was one of my "online" friends. That is Kim to the left and my son Ben in the middle and of course my ugly mug off to the right. Kim tracked us down via a cruising anarchy post in which I mentioned I was partaking in. What a great surprise. I am part of a sailing community that exists online and most of us have never met in person or even know what the other looks like or their real name. Slowly that is starting to change. Kim and his wife visited for a bit and took off. We had a fun visit and hope to repeat it soon!
After waiting on parts from Stewart's Marine in Ballard (Thanks Kathy!), I finally got the time to put everything back together. That shiny bit there is the new ($$$$) raw water pump.
"Why don't you put her in charge?!"
What a jig saw puzzle! My 2 year old loves puzzles. I should have had her help.
I should have taken more "before the rebuild" pictures. Reluctantly my brain clicked in gear after much grinding and I figured it out.
The new raw water came with directions on how to install it properly. Why is it directions always assume you have encyclopedic knowledge of that particular engine? I think I got it though. Per instructions you have to line up the adapter plate correctly or the key on the shaft for the pump will strip out, leaving you with a smoldering ruin of an engine. They go on to add that they have many pumps sent back to them claiming faulty shafts. "We have periodically tested the returned pumps and found them within specs." Then why the design that ruins so many pumps. You cannot tell if you do it wrong either. You have to take the pump out to see if the shaft is being ruined. What if you did it right and then upon returning the pump to the engine, you do it wrong that time? Dumb design I think.
This Perkins Prima 50 loves hose clamps also. I counted 40 clamps and then stopped. I am switching out the crap clamps that the PO used and am putting in AWAB hose clamps. A bit pricey but they are 316 stainless steel. Superior product I believe.
Here are some photos for your viewing enjoyment.
Cutting the metal wire in the hose. I kinda like this photo.
You know, I am attempting to photograph some of my progress and I find it hard to do. Hard to remember to take the picture, hard to find time, hard to get action shots but yet, holding a Dremel with a cutting wheel in one hand and a stupid camera phone in the other, I managed to take the photo above. I seem to gravitate towards the stupid side of things when working on the boat.
Trying to fit that 2" hose on the exhaust. My god what a pain. Had to have my much stronger friend Arnold help. Well actually it was Pete but you get the idea.
See that black disc below the hose without the copper elbow on it. That is the shaft the turns the raw water pump. Black disc is the adapter plate.
New boots for the heat exchanger. Uh, that will be $60 bucks each. I needed two.
Jeremy in his 2Go car. He looks a little too happy there.
Boat show pictures. Ben just loved the Sea Rays and the Bayliners. Not sure how to feel about that. I loved the powerboats as a kid also. Hell I owned Jet Skis PLURAL!
Sam on a Bayliner.
They just loved the powerboats. All sorts of areas to explore in them.
Benny in his "Lair"
Samey in her "Lair".
Still finding time to work on the decks.
Getting ready for painting.
So after working a 12 hour shift at the hospital, I headed to the boat Saturday night and got that blue Perkins back together. Tightened the one million hose clamps and put new longer bolts on the raw water exhaust fitting cause the old ones were way too short and junk. Filled the engine with water and punched the start button. Started right up and was spitting water out of the exhaust like:
No leaks to speak of and I even ran the watermaker. No problems. Yet. boats. It is always something.
That's it for now. Going to Port Madison this coming weekend. gotta clean that boat up. It is a wreck what with teak dust on everything, tools everywhere. Gawd!
