Boat Yard Surprises (Good and Bad)!

worst boat yard job

I guess we could argue about what’s the worst boat yard job all day, especially around the ‘table of bollocks’. How about cleaning the bilge or replacing seacocks? Grinding and sanding the hull and servicing the holding tank can’t be anybody’s favourite pastimes.

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Can you paint in the rain?

can you paint in the rain

Can you paint in the rain? Having spent longer than originally planned, we were now well and truly into the transition period and storms were rolling in.

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Is your shaft bent?

…there were just a few jobs to finish before we could start applying the anti-foul. The idea was to get the shaft and whole drive system back in place, but the exercise was proving more difficult that we had anticipated…

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Things never go to plan in a boatyard

Sailboats are seldom hauled out to do one job. And we know that once we start looking seriously underneath SY Esper, all kinds of problems we hadn’t anticipated will reveal themselves and get added to that ever-expanding list.

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