NCAR in Boulder

We travel out to Colorado to visit Bette's mom and while there, a field trip up to NCAR (National Center for Atmospheric Research. Wow what a place! We see the 30th largest super computer in the world which still takes upwards of 6 months to crunch numbers on some types of research studies.

Replacing the core on the foredeck....

......Steve has dug out the old core sections on the foredeck in order to beef up for the new windlass. It was a checkboard pattern of 4" x 1/2" blocks of wood which were set into a pattern and filled in between with some type of epoxy. Theory being that if water penetrates the core, it will only travel as far as the epoxy barrier. I guess it works??? Still a fair amount of decay in the core of the 24 year old. I'm glad that we are going through this step.

Bow roller....Gone

I've taken off the SS bow roller which currently allows us to have one anchor on the bow. Steve and I will rework this one so that it will allow for 2 anchors to be kept on the bow if so desired. We will not likely sail with both up there all the time due to weight on the bow issues but, when it looks like we will want a second anchor at some point, we'll take our time getting it up there on our terms. Our terms being some nice quiet anchorage hours before the forseen weather rather than on the spur of the moment in a blow.

Mischief helps us keep our sanity

Mischief (USA 162) helps us to keep our sanity while we patiently rebuild Iemanja. As part of the local Etchells fleet we have sailed and raced her on Lake Champlain for the past 5 years....she was another rebuild project! Now we have some partners in the boat and we hope to be able to hand her over to the new owners completely in time to put Iemanja back into the water in 2010.

Deck cleanup project continues

Bette is working on removing the deck hardware from the cabin house.  Also, as you can see we are tying all kinds of tricks to remove 24 year old genoa tracks, and other goodies...

The old windlass comes off

As you can see we are removing the old teak deck at this point and in order to get the deck planks out from under the old windlass, the old windlass has to come off.....somehow??? Get out the old trusty jig saw...