More Stuff!

The woodwork stage of the restoration is almost done (for this year), and we've started to sand, paint and re-install hardware. This week I put the portholes on the port side back together, installed the gates in the sides of the hull, shaped and installed all the cap rails that had been removed, and put in a few more dutchmans. One of the dutchmans was in the teak Portuguese bridge cap rail, and had to fit perfectly because it will be finished with varnish instead of paint. I was pleasantly surprised (shocked, really) by how well it turned out.  

The only woodworking left to do is buttoning up the top deck and putting the deck corner on the port side back together, so we should be moving on to electrical stuff very soon.

Fancy Teak Dutchman

Sanding the Porthole Frames

Dolphinite Goop Spread Around Porthole 

Same Goop Spread on Porthole

Finished Product

The Corner; My Next Project

Working on... Stuff. Lots and Lots of Stuff.

We're supposed to be out of the boathouse in about 10 days (not likely!), so we've been doing a flurry of small, random tasks to get the boat watertight. There are so many that I just took pictures and wrote the descriptions there. 

My dad started the engines earlier this week, and apart from a torn coolant line spraying antifreeze all over the port engine, everything worked like clockwork. It's really quite surprising, considering Mariah's engine's track record, and the fact that Misogi hasn't been started in about 6 months. Hopefully she'll be moving soon!

I carved small grooves into the swoopy bits that support the boatdeck.
These will be soaked in CPES, then filled with some kind of UV-resistant caulk.
Hopefully water will have a harder time getting in than it did before.

Screwed trim back around flybridge door. Everything is a slightly different shape, so the trim looks a bit sloppy now.
Definitely better than nothing though. 

Put teak bungs in a cap rail. Lots more of this soon, when the rest of the cap rails go back on. 

Rotten plywood taken off of back boatdeck. The frames are rotten too, so the whole thing will have to be rebuilt.
We're not really sure how to go about it, but the best plan to date is to saw the whole deck off and have an aluminum fabricator make a new one over the winter. Aluminum wouldn't rot. 

Spot where I need to put cap rail.

The cap rail. It's a very complicated shape, and it doesn't fit quite right on the new Portuguese Bridge.
I'm planing, scraping, and sanding it down to the right shape with a bit of help and guidance from Randy.

Port side of boat primed. We put the first coat of actual paint on today, but it still needs one more.
 I'll take more pictures once the final coat is on. It already looks really nice and shiny!

Another view of freshly-primed boat.

Chuckanut Island

Yesterday, my mom, dad, and I launched the inflatable and took it to Chuckanut Island. The inflatable is overpowered and really not meant for semi-open water with chop, so it slammed horribly and took on a lot of water. It was still fun! We landed on a nice little sandbar of the south end of the island, but the the whole place felt felt a bit "off". On all of our past visits, it had felt very inviting and full of life, but this time there seemed to be much less biodiversity and the island felt a bit foreboding. Our best guess as to what might have changed is that the island could have been hit with sea-star wasting disease. There were far fewer sea stars than we had remembered (we could only find about 12 on the whole island) and areas that had previously been bare rock and algae were covered in mats of young mussels and barnacles. We thought that this could indicate a huge reduction in sea star population due to disease, and a subsequent ecosystem destabilization. Hopefully we're wrong and I was just mis-remembering.

Google-Sourced picture of Chuckanut Island-
we forgot to take our own pictures.

Inflatable

We've gotten a lot done in the last couple of weeks. The flybridge and salon deck have been mostly completed and fiberglassed, the forward hawsepipes and lots of other bits of boat jewelry have been installed, and Randy has replaced two frames and installed two planks on the starboard side. David and my dad built the bench on the flybridge, and I spent and hour or two trying to put the teak trim on with my dad's frustratingly inaccurate miter saw. There ended up being a lot of gaps that had to be filled with epoxy, but it still looks pretty good. 

Fiberglass!

More Fiberglass!

Bench

Back of Bench

My next project on Misogi is a dutchman on a plank only a few feet from the waterline. It's not really proper repair procedure, and we'll probably just replace the whole plank in a couple of years. Until then, we need something to fill the hole, so I have some fun woodworking ahead of me. Picture of the hole is below.

Next Project