That’s today’s fun.

I’m rebedding the chain plates on the starboard side and got to the last one. It’s always the last one. One of the screws holding down the cover broke off. Grrr.

What do you do? You have to enlarge the hole around the screw and then in this case, dig it out. It was too small for a screw extractor which sometimes works. So, a two hour job is becoming a two day one since I have to epoxy the new bigger hole, let it cure and then drill it to fit a new screw before I can finish the project.

Also on today’s agenda – painting some wooden deck plates. I’ve never touched these since I’ve owned Charisma and Ann noticed the paint was getting fragile. So…Ann taped them and we sanded them for prep and a coat of paint today and another tomorrow (if it doesn’t rain).

Here's one of the deck plates taped, sanded and ready to paint. There are seven of the little buggers.