Friday, May 31, 2013

Ports DONE!

Over Memorial weekend we finished the ports. w00t! We meant to have it done before then and were actually ready to do it last weekend, and then we realized we were missing some screws and the adhesive cures within 48 hours in the tube after opening, so we waited until we could get to Menard's for more.

I still have to get air in the dolly's tires, but it is otherwise finished. I will post pics once they are on. We decided not to paint it for now.

This weekend we'll flip Blue and Woody over so I can patch a couple of nicks here and there. I don't think Woody is bringing water in were he's got a couple chips in the hull, because he was bone dry when we opened him up. But I'd like to prevent leaks in the future. We think Blue's leak is coming from a crack/chip in the daggerboard trunk and another in the mast step, so we'll Marine-Tex putty all of those and see how things go. We can monitor water intake with the ports now and will have those open to air out after a sail. It's not the the "proper" way to do things, but we also bought bangers and would rather go sail. Blue sailed pretty well, even when she was damp inside, so I'm not too worried.

This weekend we'll also pull all the rigging out into our expansive lawn and get the sails on the spars, relearn our knots, etc. Maybe maybe we'll get out on the water, but it's been storming every day this week. And I've got a wall to paint.

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