Progress

I spent a good deal of last weekend doing things other than working on Dovekie. However I did get some work time down there on Monday after a brief visit on Sunday with Sam. There a a couple of baby seals living in and around the marina and they were sleeping on the end of C pier. Spon after Sam and I got to the boat I noticed that one of them was playing around not far from us so Sam had a great view of the baby seal. He now associates that with 'grandad's boat'.

When I finally got down there on Monday afternoon there was one of the seals chasing small fish all around the pier I am on. I first noticed him about 5 meters away gulping down a fish, later with another fish and a little later again I saw him chasing a fish just below the surface and not quite catching it. The fish were maybe 180mm long so not exactly a big meal.

Once the seal was out of the way I managed to sand and get a first top coat over the cockpit floor, seat fronts and tops, and sanded and undercoated all the cockpit hatch covers. Also got a coat of undercoat on one side of the cabin top.

I picked up some plated brass fairleads and a cleat at a good price on Trademe last week so have to figure exactly where they will go.



I have removed the old side nav-lights as the plywood supports were rotting a bit. I found that there wasn't as much bedding under them as there should have been and one of the screws pulled straight through the cabin top so I need to fix that too.

Lots of little jobs but hopefully sailing as soon as the next two top coats in the cockpit are dry (and they are water based so one good day will suffice for that).

And there is still no water coming in after some pretty heavy rain so pleased with that.