Daily Archives: April 13, 2015

Wooden Surprise

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One thing we pay very little attention to on Charisma is the boom crutch. It’s not a major structural thing, it just holds the boom when the sail is not up.

The boom crutch on the deck after I took it down for maintenance.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Imagine my surprise when I took it apart and found this!

Bummer! I guess water had seeped down some screw holes and rotted a part of the wood.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

New wood rough fit

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Oh well, another day, another unexpected project. I’m squaring up the hole and fabricating a piece of wood to fill the void and will sandwich it with an epoxy/micro-balloon slurry which will dry stronger than the original wood. Then trim, sand and varnish and it’ll be good as new and ready to go back together.

Happy Anniversary To Us!

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Ha, our second anniversary. Wow, have we had a lot of fun and good times.

Just like tonight. Freezing our a&&3s sitting out a wind and rain honking cold front bringing arctic air up from the south.

It’s deep in the Fall, almost winter down here and starting to get cold. So, tonight we started up the heater for the first time in at least a year, maybe longer. Neither of us could remember.

All we know is the Pukeko had to move.

The little heater in action.