MERRY CHRISTMAS and MORE

Pinoy Boat Yard
Port Carmen, Cebu
Philippines

Twas the day before Christmas and finally I have hands on the keyboard and am again updating the blog.

First a MERRY CHRISTMAS TO ALL!!!

Since the passing of typhoon Haiyan or as it is known here Yolanda things have been quite busy. Thankfully we have been hardly impacted here in this area of Cebu. We do still after six weeks see trucks with aid supplies passing by as the road access for the Leyte ferry goes right past the boat yard. A fellow yachtie here in the yard has a business in Leyte and for now he has moved some of his extended Philippine family here.

Just prior to the arrival of Haiyan we had made the decision to have quite a bit more work done here as the new paint did not match the old and this seems to be one of the last places to find affordable boat work. As of last week a complete paint job except for the non skid was completed. As I read of other's having quotes of 20 to 30 thousand for this kind of a job we were very pleased ours was just over $4,000 US. It was were busy just keeping the painting crew of 3 supplied with dust masks which they pretty much wouldn't wear anyway, drinking water, sandpaper, rags, masking tape etc. The yard has most supplies but would occasionally run out causing either a quick trip to Danao only 10 minutes away or at times to Cebu itself only an 1 1/2 hour bus trip. There are some drawbacks to having work done here. With the painting complete we had one worker stay another week to polish the stainless, finally we are now worker free. Having workers aboard five and a half days a week gets a bit tiring.

Next for us is getting everything put back together and caught up on all the regular little boat jobs that are ever ongoing. Kathy can also get back to her recovering of the cockpit cushions that has been on hold since the painting got underway. I also have a long list of other to do jobs.

Tomorrow, Christmas, Kathy has organized dinner for us and the other yachties in the yard. The menu will feature both turkey's and ham along with all the goodies including Philippine dishes. More on that in the next blog.

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LINES DOUBLED UP PRE HAIYAN



GLAD TO HAVE LOTS OF CLEATS

ALMOST READY

THE WIND IS BLOWING

OUR VIEW FROM THE REFUGE OF THE BAR
WHERE WE WATCHED THE STORM

PO ROCKING WITH A GUST



FIBERGLASS WORK BEFORE PAINTING



SOME WORK ON SCUPPERS PRIOR TO PAINTING

A DIVERSION FOR ANCHOR
WASH WATER

A NEW SCUPPER TOO

LOTS TO MASK OFF

A FINAL COAT ON THE
NEW HARD BIMINI

A FIRST COAT OF GLOSS

OUR STRIPES ARE BACK



Done at last and ready to move on to new projects and other stuff.