Waitemata Woodys

Some nice pics of Kamalii on the Waitemata Woodys site, which covers wooden boats in the Auckland region.

http://waitematawoodys.com/2014/11/16/kamalii-sailing-sunday/

A Great Day's Sailing

Headed out sailing on Sunday with friends. Had a great day's sailing in 20 knot winds, ran the gib and reefed main and mizzen, and were routinely trucking along at 9-10 knots. 

Go-Fast Upgrade

It came to my attention a while ago that the fuel lines in the engine room (apart from the much newer genset lines) were for the most part, not to put too fine a point on it, pretty well f***ed. I pulled one off the other week and bent it, and the outer casing just cracked and broke apart. Hmmm, not good.

So the last two nights I have busily replaced the entire supply side fuel lines, including all the manifolds. Now all I have to do is bleed the thing and make sure it's all good. Unfortunately I also have the starting battery bank alternator off the engine being serviced and a few other things, so it's going to be a mad dash this Friday evening to get everything back together and working again so we can head out sailing on Saturday. Fingers crossed.

Replacing the old black hose with new RED hose should make the boat go much faster!  :-)

Skimping on materials?

I had a productive weekend varnishing etc - I reckon I have a few more days worth and that's the topsides all done. Then I can start on putting some fresh coats on the masts...

I pulled the trim off around the hatch up forward in preparation for finishing the painting in the forward cabin. This has exposed the raw edge of the teak decking. Only 1 3/4" thick up here, looks like the builders were skimping.  :-)

The joint mid-image is the plank seam. You can see some oakum caulking sticking out.

It's Spring. That means....varnish!

Finally starting to get some decent breaks with the weather on the weekends, so have hooked back into the varnishing. Basically I just need to finish off the cockpit and a few trim pieces, and then it's just the capping rail to do, which I will probably leave bare for this season as there is no point in doing it until we are ready to paint the bulwarks, and I can't see that getting done this season when there is sailing to be done!

Three coats in on the fascia trim around the seating area. Once that's done just have to do the faces under the seats. Doesn't the freshly re-caulked deck look nice.

We plan on repainting all the white when we do the main cabin top, which we plan on being this summer's big project.