More head floor

     Yesterday I did some more painting.  I put the second coat on the head floor as well as the opening for the icebox.  I also painted out the forward portion where the water tank is, including the bottom of the pieces that cover that area.  It is supposed to be pretty good weather tomorrow, so hopefully I'll get to spend some time out there.  I'm not sure yet if I will buy some paint and start that or just spend the day cleaning and puttering about.  I guess time will tell.

Head floor

     Nothing exciting to report from today.  I put the first coat of BilgeKote on the floor of the head and it looks pretty good.  I couldn't do much else after that because I didn't want to kick up any dust.  That's OK though because it was a beautiful day outside and I wanted to enjoy it.  I took a little bike ride, sat outside reading for a bit, played fetch with the blond monster for who knows how long, and just all around enjoyed my day.  There may have even been a short snooze in the chair in the back yard.

     On a side note, it looks like the wife has settled on a light blue color for most of the boat.  After getting the head floor finished up I think I am going to do a little painting.  That should make some stuff look more finished and nicer.

Short day

     My available time to work on the boat today was shortened.  Because it is a holiday weekend the wife is getting off work early and I'm going to meet her out for happy hour.  Terrible shame.

     I got the fiddles for the locker and the head almost finished today.  They are all sanded down in preparation for being varnished.  What an improvement already over the purple and yellow that got sanded off.  I also have them (temporarily) installed.  I am going to take them back off to varnish the backs and bottoms.  Once that is done I will put them back on, fill in the screw holes, and varnish the fronts.  This most likely won't happen until after the painting.

     I also sanded out the floor of the head and a couple other areas and pieces of bare wood in preparation for priming and painting.  That will be another drastic improvement.

     Not a lot of time today, but I did get a decent amount accomplished.  Working tomorrow and off with the wife the next couple of days, so you probably won't hear from me until Wednesday of next week.

Wet tools

     The plan today was to do some sanding in the head.  Unfortunately, when I got out there my sander was sitting in a puddle of water.  Stupid leak.  Kind of hard to stick on the sandpaper in that condition, let alone use a wet power tool.  I set the sander outside in the sunlight to dry and proceeded to do some long over due cleaning and straightening up.

     I then moved on to fitting some fiddles for the shelves in the head.  I cut them to size from some left over painted wood I removed earlier in this whole process.  I honestly don't even remember where they originally were.  Hopefully I don't find out later that I still need them.  By this time my sander had dried, so I removed all the old yellow and purple paint from the new fiddles, and sanded the edges down to get a good fit.  I decided to leave the installation for another day.

     Next I moved over to the PVC pass throughs and sanded them down smooth.  I removed a big portion with a chisel first because of how much was there before sanding.  Of course that led to problems.  I chipped a piece off I didn't want to.  Oh well, what can you do?

     Now that I'm sitting at home I can't seem to get the pictures to upload from my phone.  I'll either dig out the cord later tonight or just wait until I get better connection.  Either way, there are a couple pictures that will be added to this post.

     Here are a couple of pictures to help explain.  Picture being worth a thousand words and all.

Been a while

     It's been a while since I have posted.  The main reason is that it has been a while since I have done any work on the boat.  We drove up to MI for Christmas to spend some time with family, went to Baltimore for New Years, my brother came down for a little visit, and I've been trying to cram in some OT for a planned vacation to Costa Rica in February.  Also, I brewed another batch of beer.  IPA this time.

     I did get out for little bit last week.  I cut out three holes in the forward head bulkhead for the sewage hoses to run through.  I still haven't bought a holding tank, but I'm actually leaning towards re purposing the existing (old and gross) water tank and installing a new water tank sometime in the future.  We are only planning on day trips so a couple loose gallon jugs should work fine for the time being.  After cleaning up my cut outs I put a couple pieces of 2" PVC in to make everything look cleaner.  They are epoxied in place and will be sanded smooth next time I get out there.  To the right you can see them pre-sanding.

     Next step in here is the floor.  I think I'm going to grind it smooth, patch up any rough areas, and paint it with some sort of super durable paint.  No idea on the color, but that isn't my department anyways.

     Hopefully life has calmed down for a bit and I'll be able to spend a bit more time out there in the next couple of weeks.  I'll keep you updated.