If not the season.
As noted, the coppercoat was finished yesterday. Today, Audrey and I both went down and did two main jobs.
Firstly, we did the boot top in an exhorbitant hard white antifoul. She now looks very smart and ready for the best/worst that the English channel can throw at her.
Secondly, we finally got the new zinc anode studs in and refitted the anode. They were both too long so had to be cut shorter so as to be able to put a nut over the inside end. We pulled the electical bonding cable through and tried to crimp a new fitting on to it but found it too corroded. Cue a trip to the chandler for a length of new wire and a decent crimping tool.
Working on the anode was a backbreaking job with the studs protruding into the port aft cockpit locker which meant me upending myself and working a spanner in the true boat maintenance mode - head down a locker, backside and legs pointing at the heavens and the air in the locker turning a bright blue colour.
On other fronts, the repaired hatch cover is coming along and should be ready. Working with SP/West epoxy is a very interesting experience. I suspect that I will want to replace all the hatch covers in the fullness of time. Perhaps when we have spent a season or so in the Med.
Now, we just need the weather to hold so she can go in the water as booked on Thursday and then some sort of sailing and possible delivery over the Easter weekend.
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