Phuket Boat Lagoon 2

Sea Topaz
Duncan Briggs
Sat 9 Aug 2014 13:48
Thinking smile emoticon Yes.. we are still at it and will be for some time.
We are making good progress; the weather has been relatively good to us. It is hot and we sweat a lot; it does rain and sometimes incredibly hard, but we are coping. The apartment is great, only two minutes walk from the boat. We start work early before breakfast while it is still reasonably cool, have a shower and breakfast. Back to work until lunchtime, when we have another shower and a rest, then back on the boat until it gets dark. We then have another shower and either go out for a meal or cook something in the apartment. We have a hire car now full time, so we can go out shopping (either food or paint and things for the boat) or for a meal as and when we want. Last night we met up with David and Andy Pettigrew and Bunny Gray for a meal. Great fun to get out and meet other people.
 
 
Most of the ceilings had to come out
We are storing stuff in the apartment
The formica is going to be replaced, sink had to come out
The radar mast had to come off too
Tools needed to clean the decks
Aft deck after the wood had gone
View of the yard from the apartment
View of the marina from the apartment
Cutting a patch out to be welded
Aft deck a lot cleaner
The team having lunch
Making a template for the marine ply
The life raft had to come off
The coaming had rusted through so had to be replaced
New steel welded in
New coaming building up
First fitting for the plywood
Big welding job
Building up four layers of paint on the decks
The plywood boards got a coat of paint on both sides
Duncan spends a lot of time mixing paint
Welders gone, now building up the layers of paint
Foredeck ready for plywood
Aft deck ready
We had the boat to ourselves for a few days to paint