Making New Chainplates For Paradise.

Paradise, the day she became mine.

Hmm, works hard for no pay....what's this Tom doing for the next few months? I'll pay him double! Lol

Deck off 😢

Special thanks to Tom Shaw for all his unpaid hard work!

Lazerette and propane locker getting some love over the holidays.

Ship shipping ship shipping shipping ships

Blue Marlin the ship that is carrying ships, that carry ships.

Working on rebuilding the cockpit seat and propane locker.

Working on a prototype for my new light fixtures. A little sanding, round over the edge and a few coats of varnish and they'll be awesome!

James Island

Once the teak was all removed and deck cleaned up, the top layer of fiberglass is cut off and rotten core scraped out. Then the lower layer of glass is sanded with 40 grit and new marine ply epoxied in place. The ply was cut using the top layer I cut off as a template. Next up, the top layer will get epoxied back on, then all the seams get glassed using 4 or 6" fiberglass tape.

One more part complete. It was in pretty bad shape. It got enough water in the motor that it rusted enough to dislodge one of the magnets. Innards were rebuilt at the “factory”. When I looked up the info on the maker of the windlass, I was surprised to find they were 30 minutes away from me. When I took it in I got a tour of the machine shop as well…pretty cool, and way cheaper than buying a newer inferior model.... $500