Hull Wax and New Sending Unit

Waxed the hull and polished the rubrail, anchor strike plate, and cut water today.  

Out with the old.  

The homemade $8 press made easy work of extracting the well bedded, old sounder's sending unit.

In with the new.  The new sending unit is bedded in an abundant amount of BoatSeal.

The homemade deep-socket allowed the sounder's wire to pass through it as the socket tightened the sounder's 2-3/8" retaining nut--something a traditional socket would not have allowed.

Each of the last four days working on Nellie has gotten a little hotter.  As the car's thermometer shows, it was 108°F on the tarmac at 11 am this morning.

The Bottom Job

 

After being lifted out of the water Nellie was power washed then left drying on the hard for three weeks.  Any flaking bottom paint was scraped off and all underwater running gear (that needed it) was repainted with epoxy.  

The bottom was painted with 3-1/2 gallons of West Marine CPP ablative: one coat everywhere; two coats on the running gear; three coats on the bow and;  three coats from the waterline down three feet.  The remaining paint will be used when Nellie's back in the slings to double coat the area under the eight stand pads and three hull blocks.

Note: some of the old bottom paint had come off revealing the barrier coat.  The barrier coat is in excellent condition and no blisters were seen anywhere.  DBH