A wooden boat kinda day!

[bamamick]

I got the 210 launched and put the mast in her, by myself, I might add. Scratched up the new paint in a few places, but that's alright. I painted her with Brightside just for that reason. I can fix it. No problems at all with any of that part of it, but I did find out that we nicked up the leading edge of the keel on the trip home. A pretty good nick acutally, so I will have to pull her back out next week and fix that. I need to fill a couple of the worst spots on the keel anyway, that's no big deal.

Got the rainwater pumped out of the Fish. She's in fine fettle. No real worries there.

Found a rotted frame on the Dragon. It's one of the ones we replaced when I first bought the boat, and the outer laminate rotted away at the bottom in the bilge. Dangit. So it'll go on the list for next year's work, along with replacing some deck and refinishing the deck and topsides. I have stuff to do on the Penguin (replace the rails and buy a fitted cover), the 210 (I will probably just get the keel faired and the bottom re-done, and she also needs a cover), to go along with the Dragon. It's going to be a good year for my boatbuilder.

Got the grass cut under all four of my trailers (I also have an old 'glass Star). Helped a friend put up his new genoa on his 39' Endeavor. And oh, yeah. Now that the 210 is in the water people are asking about it, and I already had one person ask for information on where he might find one.

So all in all, not a bad day. A lot of good. A little bad. Pretty much a wooden boat kinda day.

Mickey Lake

[bamamick]

Talk about an anti-climax. We went down yesterday afternoon, after church and a Christening celebration for the daughter of a friend of ours, and it was blowing 20, so we were a little worried about daysailing. Still, we planned on going out anyway, until we realized that I had brought the wrong main down! I had brought an old Fish boat main that was rolled up and thrown on the pile with all of my other sails in the barn. Geez. Brenda said that it was most likely Providence, with the oysters gettin' blown off the rocks and all that, but still, pretty aggravating after driving an hour there and then having to drive an hour back.

Plus, I rubbed some paint off of the sides of the 210 along the gunnels. I think that we will have to add a teak rubrail to this boat to sail it from my club (we don't have moorings down here). I have never seen rubrails on a 210 but it could be done to look nice and still serve a purpose. I think I will have to go that direction or the boat will never be able to keep the paint on it. Oh, well. Hopefully things will work out better next week!

Mickey Lake