Tips, tricks and stories about living aboard and sailing around the world
Every year around April friends of my parents go sailing from Holland to England. This year the destination was (among others) Dover and I was invited to join them. Of course I was more than happy to go with them, to gain some experience sailing the North Sea and crossing the notoriously busy English Channel. As one can see in the pictures below we had a mighty great time!
The floor beneath the steering wheel / rudder was totally rotten and needed to be replaced. Also a better support was needed so that in the future the new wooden floor would stay in it’s place when for example one would jump up and down on it. The new wooden floor was coated with epoxy and also painted with the same polyurethane paint as the cabin. Some other work was also done on the side of the boat where some water was leaking with heavy rainfall.
The weather might have been too cold to do any painting, but it still was beautiful sailing weather, so me and my dad went on a little sailing trip together with the boat of my parents. A lot of fun it was!
After the cabin was coated with 5 layers of epoxy it was sanded once again, and ready to be painted. We used a polyurethane based yacht paint from a dutch company called Epifanes. Before applying the (white) base layers, a primer (see grey layer in the photo’s) was uses to create a better bond with the epoxy and also to fill up any pinhole etc. After that 2 layers of the white polyurethane based yacht paint was painted on to create the finished painted cabin. I did actually want to put 4 layers of paint on the cabin, but after being in a pretty horrible car accident I was kind of out of it for a while, so that was no longer possible because the temperature where getting to low. So that will have to wait till next year.
It’s been a long time since the last post and a lot has happened, but I won’t be going into too much boring details. The bad news is Seadog is still not ready to sail, but the good news is that the last couple of weeks a lot of headway has been made. I will firstly be posting some of the photo’s and short stories of the stuff that has been done in the last two years, beginning with the finishing touches of the cabin, like the entrance as one can see in the photo’s below.
