1971 Newport 30 Sailboat
Finished rubrail install today with a super cool contraption – a ratcheting heavy duty strap wrapped around it and stretched to a nearby ladder (weighted down so it doesn’t move). After a few clicks I’d run around and help the rubrail stretch until I finally was able to secure it.
Monty, one of the founding fathers of RailMakers, stopped by today to take measurements for the brand new bow and stern pulpits. The work is likely to take about a month of time but we’ll have awesome new shiny railings. Bonus: we’ll mount the stern running light on them and run wire through one of the bases = one less hole in the hull.
One of the most painful redos of the project thus far. After removing the bow track, painters plugged holes with some filler. They did such a shitty job that the holes were leaking and paint started cracking. As a quick patch, N put a strip of duct tape to cover them and we left it there for a few weeks. HUGE mistake! Getting that duct tape off took hours. After we were done, we drilled out all the holes, countersunk them from both inside and outside, and filled them properly with epoxy. Solid repair now (albeit requires more paint touch up).
With installation of the strainer, the thru-hulls/seacocks install can be marked as 100% complete. Yay!
Fitted mast base, drilled holes, and tapped them to be able to bolt it down. One interesting find from this is that the white center line on the boat is about 1/2″ off center. Crap. Guess, we’ll just live with that. The organizer plate looks great!
Met with Sean to do final planning, measurements, and parts buying for the electric engine install. That 2A cable is heavy!
Bracing for 2 days of heavy rain
Three years later, still planning the next steps.
