Port Carmen, Cebu
Philippines
Progress was made on our current project though not as much as hoped for but that always seems to be the way of these things we do to our boats. Two problems arose during the week. Lando the carpenter quit on Tuesday afternoon. We disagreed on the fact that since he is paid to work till 5 PM therefore he should not start cleaning up at 4:30 and be gone by 4:35. Tuesday he did stay but said he was not coming back to work for us. The job is now all mine. I don't really care as if we had started this project anywhere else in the world the job would have been mine, we only were using a worker for this as it is so inexpensive here and it would have been a bit faster. The other problem has been lots of lite rain not allowing work to progress.
Monday and Tuesday Lando continued on filling the void spaces and the removal of the plugs for the next section while I finished getting the bolts out of the genoa track and removed it.
Wednesday I managed to remove about half of the screws holding down the next section of cap rail. On the other half the head just broke apart leaving me some drilling and grinding work.
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| FILLING THE VOIDS |
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| ADDING EPOXY |
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| BOGGING THE TOP |
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| I NEED TO CRAWL INTO THIS SPACE |
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| SOME HOW I FIT |
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| GENOA TRACK BOLTS |
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| LIFTING THE TRACK |
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| BOLT REMOVAL |
Thursday was once again a fitting on the enclosure with Hyde Sails. We are taking things very slowly with them so no mistakes are made. It's coming along fine with all the windows and zippers in both of the sides. This fitting was for where the jib sheets and other lines would pass through and the bottom.
LOTS OF WINDOWS
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| THIS "TONGUE" ZIPPER WILL ALLOW US TO GRIND THE WINCH |
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| WE'LL BE WARM AND DRY IN HERE |
Friday it was back to working on the fitting of the cap rail. We had on and off again rain so I did not want to drill the mounting holes but did some sanding even though we are not planning to do any finish with varnish or paint. I also spent time with the electric drill equipped with a plug cutter making plugs to fill the screw holes. We had a Friday evening special as it was Roger from "Wings and Strings" 63 rd birthday, we all went to a local restaurant for dinner.
Saturday Kathy once again had Lloyd here to wash the outside of the boat. Saturday is also yachties BBQ day at the bar. Everyone brings something for the grill and a dish to share. always a nice social gathering to end the work week.
Today, Sunday, our normal day of rest I was busy doing the install of the first two sections of cap rail.
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| READY TO DRIVE THE SCREWS HOME |
Everything was fitted then 5200 adhesive applied and the cap rail was screwed in place. :Plugs were then epoxied into the holes and tomorrow they can be cut of and we can move on to the next sections.
As always Kathy's job is support so I can keep working.
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