Deja Vu Hell
The season of rain……
I thought when we got down here the finishing projects on the boat would go rather quickly, oh silly me. This has been the rainiest season in awhile down here in Guatemala. Our work we have is moving slow due to the rain and we have found more projects. This wouldn’t be so bad but the one area in concern is the mast step again. Dry rot-- an evil word for a wooden boat. So we inch along using the dry days effeciently as we can and working on inside projects when it rains.
So back to the original plan. Which was to head to Roatan ( the largest of the bay islands off of Honduras) for three months to meet our friends Ryan and Karen and sail them back to Belize. I liked it. Thought that sounded good, but with the delays Plan B is creeping its head out.
Plan B…… the outer atolls of Belize. This will give the Woodduck a nice shakedown outside the reef to see if all the new work will hold up. Good times.
It was real nice to get back to “the duck” after such a long time away ( 8 months ). We were scheduled to haul out at Abel’s the week after we arrived for a needed bottom paint job. We were all ready to leave the dock here at Nutria Marina and motor over to Abel’s Boatyard, a quarter of a mile away. I got the engines started and I found out our tiller bar ( the bar that connects our rudders which makes it possible to steer the boat ) had dry rot so a quick fix, an emergency tiller bar, was made to get us over there.
The boatyard was a dodge and weave with the rain. The hard part was to fix the dry rot under the water line before the daily cost of keeping our boat there was going to suck our funds down. With a heat gun under a tarp, I was able to get down to good wood and start building the wall up with fiberglass. We chose black bottom paint and also decided to get the white of the hull repainted.
Here are some pictures from the yard...
The next couple of pictures are of the boat without the stern crossbeam and the damage that was done to our boat while we were gone to the states.
It hasn’t been all about the boat though. I was able to brew a batch of dark ale ( 5 gallons) at the Sundog café. I am calling it Dark Dog Ale. It should be ready to drink the first week of March. So has the rain pounds the cabin as I write this I wait for the next dry spell to get back at the restoration of the woodduck and drink a nice dark ale.
jake
I thought when we got down here the finishing projects on the boat would go rather quickly, oh silly me. This has been the rainiest season in awhile down here in Guatemala. Our work we have is moving slow due to the rain and we have found more projects. This wouldn’t be so bad but the one area in concern is the mast step again. Dry rot-- an evil word for a wooden boat. So we inch along using the dry days effeciently as we can and working on inside projects when it rains.
So back to the original plan. Which was to head to Roatan ( the largest of the bay islands off of Honduras) for three months to meet our friends Ryan and Karen and sail them back to Belize. I liked it. Thought that sounded good, but with the delays Plan B is creeping its head out.
Plan B…… the outer atolls of Belize. This will give the Woodduck a nice shakedown outside the reef to see if all the new work will hold up. Good times.
It was real nice to get back to “the duck” after such a long time away ( 8 months ). We were scheduled to haul out at Abel’s the week after we arrived for a needed bottom paint job. We were all ready to leave the dock here at Nutria Marina and motor over to Abel’s Boatyard, a quarter of a mile away. I got the engines started and I found out our tiller bar ( the bar that connects our rudders which makes it possible to steer the boat ) had dry rot so a quick fix, an emergency tiller bar, was made to get us over there.
The boatyard was a dodge and weave with the rain. The hard part was to fix the dry rot under the water line before the daily cost of keeping our boat there was going to suck our funds down. With a heat gun under a tarp, I was able to get down to good wood and start building the wall up with fiberglass. We chose black bottom paint and also decided to get the white of the hull repainted.
Here are some pictures from the yard...
The next couple of pictures are of the boat without the stern crossbeam and the damage that was done to our boat while we were gone to the states.
It hasn’t been all about the boat though. I was able to brew a batch of dark ale ( 5 gallons) at the Sundog café. I am calling it Dark Dog Ale. It should be ready to drink the first week of March. So has the rain pounds the cabin as I write this I wait for the next dry spell to get back at the restoration of the woodduck and drink a nice dark ale.
jake
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