Judy Shoots the re-launch

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Windvane

Travel lift

operator

In the Sling

Lowering

Towing Hook Up

Towing

Into The Slip





UPDATE: NEW NAME STICKERS

We received the vinyl graphics from John at Marine Graphics in Seattle and here we are putting them on. (The home port is next).


Application


Looks Pretty good

Wings, Port side

Fred & Judy

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First Look at New Paint

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The painting was finished after dark on Sunday and our first real look was Monday morning. Here are the shots over the course of a week.

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Wings Emerges from Tent

New Blue

Bow

Reflection

Starboard Side

Oot & Crew

Stern

By the following Friday the white strip was on and the bottom painted.


Bow

Stbd side


Next Saturday & Sunday Judy & I installed the rudder, tiller, and Windvane.








There were a few snags in the windvane installation which we are working on but the main thing we are concerned about are some apparent failures in the the paint. This could be a disaster.

The Painter needs to come back on Monday and take a look at it.

But from a distance, it looks good.

Boat Project-Final Sanding

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Bigger Tent

Forward: Men At Work

Aft: Wet Sanding

New Colors

The latest primer coat is black after one coat of white and several coats of grey. Between each one there were applications of filler (also known as bog or bondo, depending on your location). And always: sanding. Hand sanding, machine sanding, long boarding, wet sanding, dry sanding. Sleeves of sand paper. Cans of filler. Layers sprayed on and then sanded off: over four weeks of this.

This job is employing 5 or 6 men, but labor is cheap in Thailand so I don't mind and meanwhile the hull is getting the best fairing job it's ever had.

Boat Lagoon & Royal Phuket Boat Yards

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Boat Lagoon Marina





Royal Phuket Marina Boatyard

Royal Phuket Grounds Keeper

Phuket's Boat Lagoon Marina

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Boat Lagoon Marina

Pool at Boat Lagoon Resort

Apartment 733

Boat Lagoon Boardwalk

Marina

Powerboats Rule Boat Lagoon

Rubber Plantation in Phuket

We see these rubber plantations all around Phuket and elswhere in Thailand and Malaysia, a reminder that rubber is one of the important raw materials long supplied to the world from SE Asia.

This morning I stopped to take a few shots.

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Phuket Rubber Plantation #1

Phuket Rubber Plantation #2

Phuket Rubber Plantation #3

Phuket Rubber Plantation #4

Phuket Rubber Plantation #5

Phuket Rubber Plantation #6

Bang Tao Sunset
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Visting Marco & Tessa at Bang Tao (when they come here from Singapore) is always fun. Here we watch the tourists on the beach at sunset

Sailing Images from Western Circuit

Takedown Action

At the Mark

Sailing