This shade will cover all sides of the bimini, but Debbie is working on the stern section now.
Stern bimini sun shade 92 percent started - 2013
Middle of June 2013 - Paradise Village Marina in Banderas Bay Mexico
Stern shade screen getting close - 2013
June 2013 - currently in Paradise Village Marina in Banderas Bay Mexico (by Puerto Vallarta)
Debbie made her own binding tape for the edges.
New Wheel spot
End of June - Paradise Village Marina in Puerto Vallarta Mexico
Found a new spot to stash the wheel!
Found a new spot to stash the wheel!
Debbie made a compass cover - 2013
June 2013 - currently in Paradise Village Marina in Banderas Bay Mexico (by Puerto Vallarta)
Debbie made a campus cover just because 😁
Forward chocks got a paint job
End of June 2013 - Paradise Village Marina in Puerto Vallarta Mexico
Debbie sanded and prepped the two forward chocks on the cap
rail. They were looking pretty sad after 30+ years of sitting out and use. We decided
to spruce them up.
Gloss black Rust-O-leum is what got used for paint.
Prepped and taped.
Looking good :)
The super yacht m\v Harmeny got a new prop, using fenders at the Paradise Village Marina - 2013
Middle of June 2013 - Currently in Paradise Village Marina in Banderas Bay Mexico
New prop. With a little Mexican ingenuity it is as easy as a few fenders.
Goes to show you do not need a big ship yard to put a big prop on a super yacht!
Jib sheet blocks - from sand sale
Middle of June - Paradise Village Marina in Puerto Vallarta
Soaking our used blocks we got from the sand sale in diesel fuel to loosen them up. They must have sand etc in them. We got one working good but the other is being pesky. We got it to move but not spin freely yet.
Soaking our used blocks we got from the sand sale in diesel fuel to loosen them up. They must have sand etc in them. We got one working good but the other is being pesky. We got it to move but not spin freely yet.
Replacing these original blocks.
With these ball bering blocks.
Cockpit table started
Middle of June - Paradise Village Marina in Puerto Vallarta Mexico
We will need to re-work the SS mounting to fit the Starbord
table we made.
Old table removed.
Stock binical on the Islander Freeport 36 with no cockpit table.
Teak Wonder on the cockpit grate - finished binical teak
Middle of June - Paradise Village Marina in Puerto Vallarta Mexico
All done.
All done.
Dinghy stowed for now - till chaps
Middle of June - Paradise Village Marina in Puerto Vallarta Mexico
We stowed the dinghy a little late in the year. It was because we got a couple quotes for making dinghy chaps.
We have purchased all the materials and were looking for labor quotes. We did get a couple.
One for $600.00 +
One for $410.00
These are just for labor.
Debbie will try to make these and if we run into too much of a problem we will check in September when the pricing drops to about 60 percent as the work dries up here. Of course this may not affect the chaps or Debbie may have a good handle on them so there will be no need to re-check for pricing.
We are also servicing the oars as they get stuck together from the elements.
We have purchased some cleats and chalks and will install them on the dingy when we re-inflate it for the dingy chap patterns.
We stowed the dinghy a little late in the year. It was because we got a couple quotes for making dinghy chaps.
We have purchased all the materials and were looking for labor quotes. We did get a couple.
One for $600.00 +
One for $410.00
These are just for labor.
Yet to stow the floor. The dinghy is in the blue cover on deck.
Debbie will try to make these and if we run into too much of a problem we will check in September when the pricing drops to about 60 percent as the work dries up here. Of course this may not affect the chaps or Debbie may have a good handle on them so there will be no need to re-check for pricing.
Hard at work again.
We have purchased some cleats and chalks and will install them on the dingy when we re-inflate it for the dingy chap patterns.
Teak Wonder on the cockpit grate
Middle of June - Paradise Village Marina in Puerto Vallarta
We cleaned and put a new coat of Teak Wonder on the cockpit
grate. This was really needing it.
Binical teak is getting Cetoled - finally
Middle of June - Paradise Village Marina in Puerto Vallarta
Debbie taped up the teak at the bottom of the binical. This
piece of teak we decided to do in Cetol and not Teak Wonder. It is looking good
as shinny and nice. It gets little use and little sun so it should hold up
good. It also will tie in the teak on the cockpit lazeretts that is Cetoled.
Coat of Sikkens Cetol Natural Teak.
Next will be four coats of Cetol Gloss.
Securing the Boat with Lines at the dock for Hurricane Season - 2013
Beginning of June 2013 - Currently in Paradise Village Marina in Banderas Bay Mexico
It’s moments like this that you stop and realize the amazing
talent of your partner!
Now that we are at a marina in a hurricane hole, we need to
secure the boat for when the winds are high with potential for a lot of rain
and perhaps even some lightening. So, to
that end, Chip recently started the task of putting the lines out to secure the
boat to the dock. Fortunately, there is
no boat next to us in the 2-boat slip we are in so we are able to not only tie
up to our immediate dock (to port), we are also able to cross the open slip and
tie up to the opposite dock (to starboard).
First, he had to identify which lines to use where – not an easy task in
and of itself since we have limited storage to store a lot of long lines. He was able to gather together some lines
that we use for other things when anchored out and also put together two dock
lines to make one long one.New Mermaid 12000 BTU HVAC test
Beginning of June at Paradise Village Marine in Puerto Vallarta Mexico
The Mermaid 12000 BYU HVAC unit got tested again and it
seems to be holding the coolant charge.
We have started sleeping with the stateroom AC on at night (Mermaid 5200 BTU unit).
Our boat neighbor has a big fan and says it works fine for now. I guess if you have
a big enough fan then it still keeps it cool enough to sleep. Very soon though
the humidity will kick in some more and, well it gets hot.
We set the temperature
for the stateroom and the salon for the test. The AC worked fine. We then had
the 27” LED TV and the 15” laptop on and watched a movie. AC and all was great.
We then had two burners on the stove going cooking dinner and I used the Magma
grill out in the cockpit to cook steak. In and out of the saloon a couple
times. The AC still worked great. The temperature hardly rose. So it seems the
12000 BTU salon unit will handle the two people and cooking dinner and the TV
etc no problem.
The 30 amp shore
power has handled both units and all appliance going on without a problem.
The AC units are
smart when it comes to using power especially with the digital thermostats.
Steve on Westerly comming into Paradise Village Marine -2013
Beginning of June 2013 - Currently in Paradise Village Marina in Banderas Bay Mexico (by Puerto Vallarta)
Steve on Westerly came into Paradise Village Marina and Debbie and I were on the dock so we grabbed a picture\video of him and his boat. We have run into Steve at various locations around the Mexican Rivera. Westerly is a Westsail with a different look to it.
Upper deck hand rail and eye brow
Beginning of June at Paradise Village Marine in Puerto Vallarta Mexico
The hand rail on the upper deck got a coat of Sikkens Cetol Natural Teak and
we got bummed that it was so dark.
We thought we did everything almost the same
so what gives. I went back and researched our previous methods and all seemed
fine. The we looked at some old pictures on the blog of the cap rail and a eye
brow and saw that they were dark at first also.
Old picture.
Old picture.
Old picture.
Old picture.
New picture of recent work.
So you can see the hand rail is darker and much darker if you see it right than the eye brows or cap rails. Now we think the hand rails will start turning lighter as the time goes by the Sikkens Cetol Natural Teak will dry and lighten up.
We have gotten both cap rails done now and the top eye brow now only needs one more coat of Gloss and we also got a coat of gloss on the forward eye brow.
The days are nice and warm but not too hot, beautiful weather - 2013
Beginning of June - 2013 currently in Paradise Village Marina in Banderas Bay Mexico
The weather is still great!
The days are nice and warm but not too hot. There s a nice breeze and it all means a siesta in the cockpit is a daily happening! Not sure why people leave their boats here and leave so soon. Some have been gone for months and the weather is great. Guess they need to do things other than this? 😎
The days are nice and warm but not too hot. There s a nice breeze and it all means a siesta in the cockpit is a daily happening! Not sure why people leave their boats here and leave so soon. Some have been gone for months and the weather is great. Guess they need to do things other than this? 😎
SUP (Sevylor Samoa paddle board) air valve replacement
Beginning of June at Paradise Village Marine in Puerto Vallarta Mexico
While this is all a pain in the butt we did see a Starboard paddle board in the PV mall and it was about $19000 pesos (or about $1600 US) so it is not so much a pain any more :)
Sevylor VB-V05-H3-1
The SUP (Samoa Sevylor) got pulled up out of the lazerett and Debbie and I
wrestled with the air valve and finally got it out.
We looked and tried playing
with the inner part but could not see a way of removing it without damaging the
rubber around the sealing area.
We are now looking for a new O ring and will try re-sealing the valve.
Paradise Village Marine cruisers lounge - guest hang out area - 2013
Beginning of June 2013 - Currently in Paradise Village Marina in Banderas Bay Mexico (by Puerto Vallarta)
This room is the "Hospitality Suite" at the resort, available to marina residents. It is meant for hotel guests who have to check out of their rooms well in advance of when their flights take off, as a place to hang out. It is equipped with a full kitchen (fridge, sink, stove, microwave), showers and restrooms. We were able to get a locker here so it provides us with an alternative place to take our showers. It's nice that it is available to us as marina residents as it gives us another place to be in A/C (that's super cold) with WiFi during the hot summer days.
Deck pump out flange
We finished up cleaning the deck pump out flange. It had silicone
all over it and was real hard to get it all off. Then Debbie washed it with acetone
and blue taped it up nice. Then it was the UV 4000 treatment. Put some down the
screw holes also. We only had one new fastener that fit and the others were a
bit small. They are the same size as the originals but they were stripped out.
Our boat neighbor gave us three screws but the heads were too big. The
chandlery here at our dock had lots but none the right size. So we used the
new, same sized ones for the three with the fourth holding the flange in good
and with the 3M UV 4000 holding the other three screws and flange in this
should be fine. The hose is attached to the flange and runs to the holding tank
so the flange is not going anywhere. We are stopping the water leaks around the
flange and screws.
Debbie had to resort to the bare finger method to get 3M UV 4000 up under the flange so this would seal properly.
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