Amy rocks. She grinds, paints, sands, and varnishes. She measures, marks, fits and cuts. And she can drive long damn distances with me in the car. 2,743 miles in less than 40 hours. She rocks.

Amy picked out the colors for the top coat and we ordered the paint. It did arrive before we left, but didn’t have time to apply it. So, there is nearly $3,000 worth of paint waiting for application.

We did get the bowsprit off the boat. It took 16ft scaffolding and 3 guys, but we got it off the boat and on the floor. Ryan and I ended up making some bars to hold the anchors on the rollers in case it gets rough.

We bent more rings/loops for blocks and welded them to the forward side of all the sets of shrouds. These things are beefy, very beefy, but it was the bar stock we had on hand and will not require a metal eye.

Amy got the foredeck hatch area primed and ready to paint was well as the wheel house. We also cut the sliders for the hatch logs. The hatches slide real nice and I think everyone is super impressed with Ryan’s hatch log work.

We also started the new dingy davets rails and started welding in the door frames down below. Speaking
of down below. Steve finished boxing in the engine room. So now the area is defined. Next, he’ll take down the walls one last time to paint and glue them up. Then they’ll be layered with fiberglass to help fireproof the engine room.

Steve and I also worked on the hatch frames and he got the two companionway hatch frames built and glued up. He’ll put them on when he next has time. Amy got templates of them so we can build the hatch boards here and send them up.

See, Amy Rocks.

After unloading all our stuff from the truck, Amy got right to work on priming the boat for painting. This of course, involved a ton of grinding and 5 primer kits later, she is done with 90% of the hull. We need to get the bow sprit off to do the rest. We also picked out the hull colors and ordered the paint.

The propane lockers actually fit the boat really well, so I feel a little upset that I did not finish them back in Texas months ago. But, in the garage, they looked large, on the boat, it works. So I glued and screwed them together. Amy started sanding and we may be able to get a few coats of varnish on next week.

Ryan and I got on with the welding again. We made the jib traveler which looks like you could pick the whole boat up with it. We started framing the hatches inside the boat. We welded a few more big beefy cleats on the boat. The railing that we put on the stern 2 years ago weren’t quite right, so Ryan cut the stern rail off and has started some new ones, ones bent with an actually pipe bender and they already look much nicer.

The build jig on which Tesha has been built was cut away this week as well. Tesha now sits on a proper stand. The final keels welds can finally be made.

I started cutting pads to mount the zincs on and will have to continue that job next week.

For the weekend, Amy and I went to Prince Edward Island to spend a few days at Brian and Mary’s cottage. It was super nice and relaxing. PEI is farm after farm, in rolling countryside with small villages dotting the bays. Would recommend it to anyone needing to get away.

The big event this week was that Amy and I drove up to Halifax to work on the boat this week. 2700 miles, 3.5 days. We’ll have to do it in two when we go back. Suck.

We stopped at the Mystic Seaport Museum in Connecticut on the way up and toured around for a couple of hours. It was really beautiful, and the area would be a good place to winter the boat next year when we sail out of Halifax.

YachtSmiths has been painting the bottom of Tesha. Coat after coat! The shaft seals have been ordered. What else? Amy and I have all our dingies frames glued it. Looks great.