I’ve been down the porch paint road and its good in the bilge/interior. No home Depot here. The sun here is soooo much stronger than southern Florida it just cant take it. Also with my shrimp boat mentality comes being hard on your boat, I’m hard on Splendid. Always dropping tools on the painted surface, dragging equipment around, plus I live on the surface 100% of the time, it needs to be hard as nails otherwise I’ll be painting the rest of my life :(

I took out a few chain plates yesterday. There is a half inch fiberglass ridge they are on that is above the deck. It used to be so the chain plate base would be flush with the old teak decks. I was toying with the idea to leave them as the base of the chain plates would be raised off of the deck and thus dryer, but they are all chipped and nasty looking. So I ground one flush to the deck and and couldn’t believe my eyes, they were cored with rotten/wet wood. I couldn’t believe it. It would be so much harder to make these little bases cored as opposed to solid, why would someone do that? Anyway, I’ll be grinding everything flush to the deck, it will look better anyway. What a job to do in 95 degrees and direct sun!

Today I’m going to try and rig a canopy to block the light and provide shade.

I’m moving a bit slow today. I met a nice couple (Irish) on a 42 Cheoy lee Golden wave last night and we ended up drinking wayyyyyy tooooo much :(