The Rainy Season

Well the rains have finally arrived. The past couple of nights it has rained during the late evening and night. So far the rains have not lasted long - 10 to 15 minutes at the most, but they do come down. They start and finish suddenly. It's as if someone has turned over a glass of water and then when it is empty it stops. By morning everything is dry.

The rain in the video lasted 20 minutes and consisted of a series of downpours.

Fortunately most of the painting is done on the boat. This week they finished the deck and topsides (toerail to waterline). Yesterday they did the detail painting on the topsides and the waterline stripe. One of the other boaters commented on the paint job done on the topsides. He said it had good depth of shine. This means you can see a good reflection in the paint. Hopefully you can see that in the accompaning picture.

Griff also got the dinghy finished today. It now has a coat of etching primer, primer and two coats of paint inside and a coat of etching primer and two coats of anti-fouling paint on the bottom. Now we have to get it back in the water without scratching it.

The last thing we did today was mark the anchor chain. We bought new chain to go with the new anchor and we had to mark it every 20 feet so Griff will know how much chain has gone out when we drop the anchor. We need to let out 5 feet of chain for every foot of depth we are anchoring in. We marked it by putting a coat of primer on it, then sprayed it with yellow paint and then put plastic ties throught the chain links.