Category: Westsail Upgrades/Repairs

Sanding and removing tar from the hatch door.

Posted by – March 27, 2009

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And the sanding has begun. This will be a long, ongoing project.

Posted by – March 26, 2009

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We have a fair amount of teak to sand and oil. We also have chunks missing that will need to be replaced.

Bleaching old, dirty lines. A clean plunger works well as an agitator!

Posted by – March 26, 2009

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Working on the wiring

Posted by – March 24, 2009

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Our wiring is a dangerous string of 12 volt and 110. It runs through the boat, many ends exposed and lots of janky bundles near the hub in the head. It’s scary looking and we have been putting it off. Steven is good at working on this stuff so we should be in good shape before too long.

James is attaching the new prop

Posted by – March 24, 2009

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We have a working sink faucet! Steven hooked it all up!

Posted by – March 19, 2009

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The pump even works!

Running bleach through the water tanks

Posted by – March 19, 2009

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We have 2 water tanks under the floor in the salon. Total, we have between 60-80 gallons of space. The tanks look pretty clean on the inside when we peeked with the flash light. A good bleaching won’t hurt though. For now, we will use the tanks to flush the potty and as rinse water. We are debating if it would be safe enough to run the tank water through a Brita filter for drinking purposes. We are concerned about chemicals as we have bug bombed several times.

Figuring out our water tanks to use for flushing the head

Posted by – March 19, 2009

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Assembly

Posted by – March 19, 2009

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The first of three panels

Posted by – March 19, 2009

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