I broke out my new sea breathe hooka system and dove on the boat with Darrin yesterday. It is such an awesome tool. It provides two regulators, and an unlimited about of air to work on the bottom. I have so much more boat under the water I won’t be able to go down and clean the bottom in an hour anymore. My prop had an inch, to two inches of solid barnacles on it. It will be nice to be moving full time and maintaining Splendid’s bottom.
Another cool toy I got was the Magellan GSC100 communicator. There is a link to the last place selling them on the site. They used to cost a few thousand dollars, but you can buy the last batch of them for $395.00. I know a lot of sailors who swear by these things. Basically it’s a self contained (no computer needed) email communicator with a GPS. Service is under $40.00 a month and they work anywhere in the world. I think this is the cheapest means of email communication at sea that I know of. I usually use my satellite phone, but that is about $1.50 a minute. I’ve never used one but I’m looking forward to having this as a backup.
Half of Splendid’s decks are chipped and have clean bare fiberglass decks. It was a bunch of extra work, but this really is the way to go. Darrin also started glassing up the cabin house. We will start faring it today. I can’t wait to get the first layer of paint on the boat!!! People tell me I can get a spray gun, hose, and a water filter and spray my boat using a SCUBA tank. If anyone knows about this please post a comment or send me an email.
Projects, Projects, projects, my mast steps came the other day and I’ll be installing them soon.
We’ll be moving down to
Peace, Love, and Coconuts.
– Alex