OUR WORK WEEK

Ocean View Marina
Samal Island, Davao
Philippines

Today was our quiet day. No workers in the yard and for most of us here in the marina or on the hard it's a day off. Kathy and I spent the day catching up on paperwork jobs, insurance renewal, sailmail renewal, printing papers for this weeks upcoming immigration visa renewal. Computer stuff. Kathy though she has been sick this last week managed to do several loads of laundry and give the boat a rinse off. The rinse off was much needed after my week of sanding bottom paint.

MY TOOLS READY TO START

It's a good thing that I am still a bit fit as my job for the last week was stripping off the accumulated layers of anti-fouling paint. I managed to finish the starboard side. Tomorrow I start on the port. Depending on the area of the hull I used either a large 7" or small 4" grinder with 36 grit paper. The object was to get the anti-foul paint off and down to the old barrier coat. Tomorrow I have workers again to take off the barrier coat down to the original gel coat using orbital sanders. I just did not trust the workers with the grinders going to far into the fiberglass. It's tolerable if I do it but not if they make the same mistake, I did in act go a bit to far a few times. Just more spots to fill and fair. Once the paint and barrier coat have been removed we'll let the hull dry out, repair any osmotic blisters and then re-apply barrier coat and anti-foul paint.

READY TO START ON THURSDAY

CLOSE TO THE FINISH

THE STARBOARD SIDE IS DONE

AN OLD GUY SELFIE

Some other tidbits from the boat yard. We have some yard cats with feral beginnings but now a bit domesticated. First was "Jack" tamed and fed first by Philip and Leslie of the S/V Corina. They had Jack fixed to stop the proliferation of kittens. Next came "Brouhita"[sp] little witch in Spanish, tamed once again by S/V Corina, Suzie of S/V Sidewinder and Kathy. Before we could catch and have "Brouhita" spayed she became pregnant resulting in four little ones.

A LITTLE ONE WITH A FIERCE YARD DOG TOO

PLAYFUL

MOM AND A LOOK ALIKE

The vet was here yesterday and we will have mom and kittens spayed and then the vet said she could find homes for the kittens. "Brouhita" will remain along with "Jack" here in the yard keeping us free of rats.

Just another week living the dream after untying the dock lines.