Hi, all,
Concatenating replies with snippets from each...
----- Original Message -----
From: "Wilbur Hubbard"
I knew I could count on you :{))
That we've removed any reasonable level of available WSMs from the hull,
following up with not only epoxy fairing but a very thick barrier coat,
we feel, should put this blister issue to rest. Even if it doesn't,
we're not going there again in our lifetime :{))
Which lifetime will, unfortunately, be necessarily abbreviated, until an
unless you decide to spend at least half the time you spend on
maintenance, learning how to sail. :-)
Actually, as you've never been aboard during our 40K or so of water miles,
you don't know how much time we spend learning to sail. That said...
What's it been now? Six months on the hard? LOL! All that time wasted on
a
Actually, we came ashore in Mid March (see the Ragged Island - Ft. Pierce
Passage report). We left for 8 days for a wedding a couple of weeks later,
and went on to grandparenting stuff (easy to do when you live ashore, not so
much when your only home is your boat, and it's in international waters most
of the time) for 5 weeks recently, arriving a week ago back in the yard.
So, you do the math - we've been working on the boat for about 8 weeks.
How long have YOU been ashore since the last time you took a 500 or more
mile sail? (That's assuming you've ever done, and doesn't count going out
for a weekend to start the ground clock over again...)
When the boat's finished, and we've done the few in-the-water chores needed,
we'll not come out again for a few years, that time for some lovely
additions to our green abilities as well as upgrades in the same step.
Likely Cartagena, at least at this conjecture.
dilapidated POS. Sad! You and Lydia could have gotten jobs and used the
money earned to buy a decent, sail away condition yacht - not some
maintenance intensive, soon-to-blister-again Morgan which is about as
low-end a boat there is.
LOL! We actually HAD jobs (well, me, not so much, but I put a lot more into
the retirement kitty than she did). It's why we LEFT - who want's an F'ing
JOB???
Onward...
From: "Richard Casady"
On Sat, 18 Jun 2011 08:05:08 -0400, "Flying Pig"
wrote:
esterday we had a steam cleaner (8GPM @ 3000psi @ 225°F) clean the bottom
of the boat.
Not possible to have steam at those conditions. Steam has to be at
Fair enough. However, flooding the boat under a lot of pressure with 225*
water is pretty good against 90* water :{))
more than 1000 F to reach such pressures. If you pressurize steam to
3000 psi it will condense unless very hot. The liquid in question will
begin flash into steam as it leaves the sprayer tip. It might not be
It did, indeed - and, a lot of it, at 8GPM...
properly called steam cleaning, but I admit that is a nitpick.
:{)) Nitpicking is allowed
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----- Original Message -----
From: "CaveLamb"
But wouldn't 700+ degrees have a detrimental effect on fiberglass?
Yah, it sure would. Epoxy melts at 350...
So, anyway, fiberglassing the divots is proceeding apace. 3 days later, not
the first hint of any further WSMs on the hull, and the hull looks and feels
drier than ever before.
Indications are that's not merely suggestive, as we borrowed the yard's
meter, which we'd earlier used as we went around and marked various points'
readings. Today, they're all down, and the worst of them reads about what
the ones which were below the alarm threshold did (vs well up on the scale,
with some pegged, on the worst), and those marginal previous meter reading
points barely move the meter.
Though Wilbur, in his infinite and all-knowing wisdom, is probably right,
that this won't work, it fools the meter that other folks will use as an
indicator as to whether this is a good hull when the sad day arrives that we
have to sell her, and that's good enough for me and Lydia :{))
Meanwhile, much fairing after all the patching is finished will remain, but
all is proceeding well.
Finally, as Wilbur's called himself out, as one who used to bemuse at Cap't
Neal's contributions to this august (wait - it's not even July!) body so
very long ago, I say, "Wilbur, how about just coming along as CN? It took
several years and many heated protestations to the contrary (including "he's
my roommate") for you to own up to Gregory Hall - why not go whole hog (said
as one who lives on a boat with such a name knowing that it would be a good
thing)?" Despite your megalomania and pedantry, you (in that character,
anyway, apparently verified via the name on the proudly displayed USCG
certificate) had many valuable school sessions as well as contributions in
those past times.
L8R
Skip, still in the yard, with a REMOTE possibility of the boat on the ground
for 6 months, but I surely doubt it...
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