Genius? Or Do You Have a Better Idea?? Livin' Life on the EDGE in the Boat Yard 🤪 (CSS, Ep.169)

In this episode Bill begins work at the yard by dropping the rudder the rest of the way down, a continuation of last week’s videos work. We’ve decided to have a whole new rudder made after discovering deep pitting on the stainless steel pipe. He needs to remove the bushing but to drop the rudder down requires use of winches and some good old fashioned digging. Once the rudder is fully dropped Bill takes the Sawzal to the shaft’s hole and goes to work. Much grinding and hammering later it finally falls out. It was pretty stuck after 40 years!

Next Bill begins to tackle our blister problem, delamination spots where moisture has imbued into the deepest layer of paint or barrier coat. Each spot, 71 in total need to be grinded out to reveal fresh fiberglass. Then they are set to dry.

Next we give viewers a tour of our little apartment or casita where we’ll be staying at night during our refit process. It’s already piled with things we’ve removed from the boat to give us more space to work.

The next project we work on is removing all the stuff on Calico’s stern in preparation for a new arch system that we will be building. It takes a bit of muscle and finally we use our friend Demetrius’s RV as a platform to remove the solar panel’s which there’s no other way to gain access to. It is exactly the same height as our boat on it’s jack stands so Bill goes for a ride on top as D maneuvers it along side Calico Skies. Then together, the boys carefully lift it across the RV to the boat safely.

After unpacking some goodies that Demetrious has brought down from the US we head to the canvas shop for a new dodger. We’ll also need a new bimini because the arch system will have a different design than what we have currently. Then we’re back to the yard to examine progress on the blisters and some are still weeping a residue meaning they must be ground out deeper. Bill does this and also works to standardize the blisters’ size in preparation for fiberglass, the next step in the remediation process.

0:00 Intro
0:10 Continuing with the removal of the rudder
3:22 Blister Remediation
6:30 Casita..home away from home
8:32 Dismantling the old davits
12:20 Special Delivery
13:32 Upholstery Shop
15:17 Standardizing the blister size
19:22 Back to the rudder bushing
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