Beez Beak Fix

Beez Neez now Chy Whella
Big Bear and Pepe Millard
Fri 17 Jan 2020 23:57
Beez Beak Fix
 
 
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Wednesday and Thursday saw us buckle down to jobs. Unpacking from our road trip to see Larry and Marlo, I pottered and did laundry. Bear changed the girls oil and filter. A doctors appointment for onward drugs with a man about to retire and sail off in his catamaran. We ventured as far as Nauti Nauti to play Mexican Train Dominoes.
Friday the 17th. At eight this morning a very dapper gentleman called Franz arrived to tidy Beez poorly beak. He laid his stuff out like a surgeon despite being a very windy morning. Bear could not get over his polished, shiny shoes.
 
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Franz began with sandpaper.
 
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All sanded and prepared.
 
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Secret mix.
 
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The next step watched by Allen.
 
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More secret ingredients and then the master set to work.
 
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Next step. Allen and Bear both agreed that by now they would have been elbow deep in sticky, white ‘stuff; and had it all over their clothes. At one point a gust took Beez beak up against the pontoon pad. Franz patiently leaned over to his enormous pot of acetone, cleaned the pad and carried on. Bear was not happy in the weather conditions but Franz soldiered on.
 
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The cover Franz used over one of the dock storage boxes was removed and cleaned thoroughly with acetone.
 
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Next step.
 
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Before the final sanding. Pretty good eh.
 
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Meanwhile, a visit from an enormous sun fish.
 
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Our chap (about four feet in length and a Wiki picture showing just how weird these creatures are, now classed as Vulnerable on the IUCN Red List (International Union for the Conservation of Nature). Little is known about this strange creature in the wild other than the fry are itzy-bitsy at birth. They have been seen to live to the age of ten in captivity, eat jellyfish and anything they can fit in their bin-like mouths such as fish, squid, salps etc. Adults weigh between 245 and 1000 kilograms. They live in tropical and temperate waters, are one of the world’s heaviest bone fish and are mostly seen alone. To us they look like a composite of bit and bobs. Very strange.
 
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Late in the afternoon we braved the gusts to buy five hundred pounds sterling (needed for St Helena and of course the UK). This cost us five hundred and thirty eight pounds with a bit of a performance. We had the Rands but no ATM receipts, so off we went for another chunk and the rest on our Barclaycard – all because of the baddies who money launder. Growling. We bought Bernie a pair of Crocs with reflective tape in the sale, replete with  B jibbitz and then we treated ourselves to a date night at the Italian. Quite cold by the time we got in but the priority was to get the Boss up on YouTube so Bernie could Dance in the Dark. Yay.
 
Zebra from Mary
 
Rod and Mary sent this fantastic picture, sums it up beautifully. We though Port Elizabeth was supposed to be the Windy City. We have had gusts to forty-five knots. Outside the breakwater saw fifty-five and Hout Bay has thirty-five to forty-five with gusts to sixty-seven. For someone who doesn’t like and has never liked big winds it has been a time to stay indoors and try to catch up on a ridiculously long list of blog backlog. Saturday saw us all indoors save for poking our noses out to zig-zag to the shower block. Friday afternoon the cockpit temperature was forty point five degrees, Sunday morning it reads twenty and the wind is bitterly cold. Let’s hope it settles as we are supposed to be going to see the Cape Town Philharmonic orchestra play as we picnic at Kirstenbosch Gardens........We watch this space.....
 
 
ALL IN ALL A BIG STEP FORWARD DESPITE THE WIND
                    BEEZ LOOKS SO MUCH BETTER