Tips, tricks and stories about living aboard and sailing around the world
This weekend we decided that it was time to clean out the Seadog. It was to cold to do epoxy work (winter is coming). Luckily Justin had a week off the week before, so he had time to paint the cabin with two layers of epoxy. So Seadog already has it’s (waterproof) jacket on for the coming winter.
Last weekend we started to prepare the cabin so that we can put on the epoxy. We hoped that we would be able to finish these preparations last weekend but we didn’t make it. So next weekend we’ll also have to work on it. We hope there will be a few more warm weekends, before winter sets in.
Last week and this weekend we did a lot. We removed the frame of the old roof and started rebuilding the roof. We might be able to close the cabin today. Lets hope so cause winter is coming. After this weekend it would be nice if we had a few more weekends with good weather so that we can epoxy the whole cabin with a few layers and also start painting the whole thing.
Here we are again,
It’s been a long time since we wrote on the blog, but where back. The engine is still not running, because we are focusing on finishing the work on the main cabin (see photo’s). The first (and hardest to do) pice of the roof is now in place. It was a lot of work to change the entrance of the cabin to the left side, but it all worked out in the end! The roof itself is also placed perfectly as we hoped it would. No leaking in this boot anymore when were done with it…
We also took a little vacation (Justin to Sweden, Tidave to Turkey) and when we returned there was a little surprise for us. All the windows were placed in the walls of the cabin by Paul ;-). We still have to permanently place them and make them waterproof, but the sunlight is back inside the Seadog!
The last two weeks it was stormy weather in Holland. The Seadog got some hard winds blown at her. The temporary roof of the tarp was partially demolished. Me and my dad did some serious repair work to keep things dry again. It may not look very pretty, but hopefully it’s stormproof.
