There is LIGHT at the end of the tunnel!!
The varnish and paint brushes have been cleaned and put away. The roller for the new non-skid too.
We're still using lots of blue tape as today was spent working on portlight leaks
Today was "eggs to lay and chickens to hatch" as Don Stewart would say. We are into the local rainy season, work needs to be finished by about 3 pm as that's when the cats and dogs normally start falling out of the sky in the form of raindrops.
This morning at 0830 after getting a few more things re-installed in the cockpit it was back to taking portlights apart to solve the leaking problem. Water dripping onto the electrical panel is never a good thing. We have also suffered some discoloration of interior wood. Frames were pulled off and old bedding compound removed. As usual several screws broke off causing more drilling and filling. Lots of epoxy was injected. Finally about 2 pm temporary plastic was put on. As you would expect there was no rain today.
There is still another day of applying epoxy to go then the frames can be re-installed and hopefully that will end the leakage in that area. Also that only leaves 10 more portlights to redo.
Today I kept Kathy busy assisting me mixing epoxy, the last several days she has been busy loading up the computer with music to be played through our IPOD.
There is still a bunch to finish up with before we can get underway north but there is definitely LIGHT!!
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