Departure date….well more like we are aiming to leave for Mexico depending on weather: September 27th – October 6th. SO MUCH TO DO IN A MONTH! AHHHH
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| the mast in its final stages |
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| Just landed in St. Thomas |
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| Shannon and Momma Neely |
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| Our view in Little Harbor, Normand Island |
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| BVI sunset |
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| Shannon and Aunt Elly |
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| Jon and Shannon |
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| DOMINOES! we are obsessed! |
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| Soaking in the sun |
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| Heading home |
All the things we needed to get done while on the hard:
-change the bottom paint from ablative(blue) to a hard paint (red)
-remove vacu-flush head system
-paint anchor locker, laz and head area
-remove rudder, attack blisters, new rudder bearing
-remove and fill 2 useless thru-hull holes
-change out all thru-hulls
-service all sea-cocks
-install rebuilt pumps, starter and new alternator on engine
-new exhaust hose and muffler box repair
-new exhaust thru-hull
-new prop- FEATHERING!
-new cutlass bearing
-new flexible coupler
-remove old fridge and install new water cooled fridge
-re-bed all chain plates
-hook up H20 heater to engine
-install new fuel pump/ polish system
-acid wash topsides
-buff/wax topsides
-remove name and have new one made
-install all new bilge pumps
– take out dripless system and put in stuffing box
We have been working our butts off while in the yard. I have work Monday through Friday so Jon has been spear heading the weeks by himself. However my big brother Sean did come to the rescue for a week and helped out in a life saving way! We have been ass up elbows down hands working for 2 weeks straight with only taking 2 nights off to celebrate my birthday. We can not wait to be sailing on her heading to warmer water! wWe want to be in the water as soon as we can, living on the hard is tough! Luckily we were able to stay on Debbie’s ( Jon’s mom) boat for the first 2 weeks, that was so helpful!
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| Getting ready to be hauled |
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| Up she goes |
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| Jon and Prism |
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| Hunting down all the blisters |
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| there were some really big guys! |
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| Its war: Shannon VS rudder blisters |
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| Thru-hull carnage |
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| there is STUFF everywhere!!!!!!!! |
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| Old head out! |
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| Thru hull removal |
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| Time to start sanding |
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| Jon trying to get pumped to start sanding bottom paint |
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| Shannon sanding the keel |
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| The hole made for emergency rudder (Plan B) |
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| My brother Sean who came to help work on the boat! |
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| Sean doing the hardest job of the haul out! |
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| Sean and Jon prepping for gel coat repairs |
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| Sean and Jon “Hard” at work |
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| Anchor locker – Before |
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| Anchor Locker- After |
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| the huge crack at the bottom of our rudder |
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| Jon investigating the crack on the bottom of the rudder |
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| Jon working hard |
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| 1 of 2 thru-hull holes that we patched |
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| Working late |
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| LOOK its starting to SHINE!! |
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| Jon prepping the coupler |
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| new stuffing box, getting ready to install coupling and align the engine |
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| in the laz waiting to install the coupling |
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| Shannon hanging over the engine working on the engine mounts |
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| Jon in the laz working the engine alignment from the back |
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| Clarke brought us our rebuilt started and helped get the first coat of primer on! |
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| Jon cutting fiberglass woving for the large blister repairs |
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| Painting the first coat of bottom paint! |
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| Bottom painting! |
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| feeling a little light headed from the fumes |
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| Bottom paint done! |
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| Rudder repair with purple heart wood. |
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| Shannon’s 27th birthday dinner |
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| Berkeley Sunset looking out towards the golden gate |
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| Round 2 birthday dinner |
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| I spent 2 days in this spot: polishing all our stainless |
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| before and afters |
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| Jon doing a fiberglass repair on the bottom of the keel |
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| More before and after polishing pictures |
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| it feels like everything we own is out on deck |
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| tools and stuff everywhere |
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| up, and then down, damn I forgot something.. back up, then down |
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| Boat yard view |
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| Chainplates going back on |
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| Mast rigging going on |
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| all the rigging hardware |
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| Rudder is done and ready to be put back on the boat |
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| Jon in the laz installing the rudder packing and new bearing |
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| its a small hole |
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| Mast is up! |
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She is almost ready for the water!
 Prism getting picked up  About to splash!  SHE FLOATS!  Jon finished installing the new head!  Everything is out of the pantry to install the new fridge  Painting our boom and bowsprit  Jon in the laz working on something….  the new fridge system: to the left is the thru-hull with the built in coolant for the fridge and above to the right is the compressor unit  painting our gig harbor dinghy- prepping to sell it  we have a bowsprit and pulpit again!  Prism needs a bath.. bad  Jon: changing engine mounts  Jerry helping Jon change out engine mounts  this is how Prism looked for weeks  Engine running! and there is water!  Engine running!  Its coming together!  We had taken over the dock!  Staring to unload the dock box and finding homes for it on board  Jon at the top of the mast  Our first sail out on the bay in over 6 months! Out with the Fresno Yacht Club  She is such a pretty BOAT  Making the last provisioning runs while we still had the car  This is Jon “row towing” the wind boards back over to the Mason Once we were back the water, the projects did not end. We had to finish quite a few things including installing the new head, re-install the steering quadrant (funny story on that later) well there have been so many I have lost track. On our way back to our slip we had some vibration at low RPMs, so we looked into our engine mounts… and its a good thing we did. We ordered 4 new mounts and as we were changing them out, the first one was completely sheared off at the bolt. AH! that could have been very bad! But now.. the engine is perfect! AHHHHHHHH!!!!!! |
2 thoughts on “On the HARD, PRISM floats again, test sail, IT ALL WORKS!!!!”
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Great job getting Prism ready for your trip, she looks great even when you guys have a mess going lol
Looks great! Is there a good way to get a hold of you guys?? We are about a year behind you and we are doing our major haul out in May and I plan to do almost all of the same projects. I have about a hundred questions and would love to pick your brains. Email Me at marineradam at gmail if you can. I would really appreciate it!! We have Wild Swan HC33T #26