We've been pretty dern busy getting things done, that's why I haven't updated in a while. So here's the recent developments. Shortly after that final coat of Chevy White went on, the dark grey bootstripe went on, it's sort of a trim for the bottom of the hull right above the waterline. Then after that the coats of bottom paint went on.
We took down the scaffolding the next day, which netted me some pretty nice pictures of her in her full-painted glory. (Which I'll upload soon enough, I forgot to bring my SD card). The rudder was then reglassed by Dan in several layers and painted with the same bottom paint as well. She's completely ready to go in the water as soon as some more money clears for Dinko (the owner of the yard we hauled out in).
Along with all this, we checked out the sails that we had onboard. One of our friends from the marina introduced us to a friend named Erik, who works at a sail repair shop. So, we took all our bags of sails over and were able to spread them out on his floor and examine them. We had seven sails in all. We found a storm jib and a storm trysail, both of these sails are small sails made out of heavy materials for very heavy weather sailing, one for the jib sail and one as the mainsail respectively. Both were in good condition, as they rarely get used. We also found a high-cut spinakker. This sail is like a giant parachute that you put on the front of the boat when sailing downwind for a periods of time. The fact that ours was high-cut makes it versatile as we can use it for beam runs as well (going with the wind perpendicular to movement of boat). We also found a jib (smaller front sail) that had been sewn from a mainsail, they actually cut out pieces of fabric and sewed it together to make a smaller sail, this one needed repairs. We also found another jib, that will probably become our main jib once it's repaired. We also found a messed up genoa (over-sized jib). But the biggest find was the original mainsail that came with the boat. It's reasonably clean and has the Cascade logo on it. Along with the logo it had the number 2. Our hull number is 52, so we'll probably put a five on it. This will most likely become our working mainsail once repairs are completed.
This has all been done for a few days now. Recently, we've been entertaining Dan and I's mothers who came down from Oakhurst and Modesto for a visit. We've got my mom planning to sew up some cushions for the boat, which will be wonderful.
I'll update this with some pictures soon enough. Daniel, out.
We took down the scaffolding the next day, which netted me some pretty nice pictures of her in her full-painted glory. (Which I'll upload soon enough, I forgot to bring my SD card). The rudder was then reglassed by Dan in several layers and painted with the same bottom paint as well. She's completely ready to go in the water as soon as some more money clears for Dinko (the owner of the yard we hauled out in).
Along with all this, we checked out the sails that we had onboard. One of our friends from the marina introduced us to a friend named Erik, who works at a sail repair shop. So, we took all our bags of sails over and were able to spread them out on his floor and examine them. We had seven sails in all. We found a storm jib and a storm trysail, both of these sails are small sails made out of heavy materials for very heavy weather sailing, one for the jib sail and one as the mainsail respectively. Both were in good condition, as they rarely get used. We also found a high-cut spinakker. This sail is like a giant parachute that you put on the front of the boat when sailing downwind for a periods of time. The fact that ours was high-cut makes it versatile as we can use it for beam runs as well (going with the wind perpendicular to movement of boat). We also found a jib (smaller front sail) that had been sewn from a mainsail, they actually cut out pieces of fabric and sewed it together to make a smaller sail, this one needed repairs. We also found another jib, that will probably become our main jib once it's repaired. We also found a messed up genoa (over-sized jib). But the biggest find was the original mainsail that came with the boat. It's reasonably clean and has the Cascade logo on it. Along with the logo it had the number 2. Our hull number is 52, so we'll probably put a five on it. This will most likely become our working mainsail once repairs are completed.
This has all been done for a few days now. Recently, we've been entertaining Dan and I's mothers who came down from Oakhurst and Modesto for a visit. We've got my mom planning to sew up some cushions for the boat, which will be wonderful.
I'll update this with some pictures soon enough. Daniel, out.
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