Day 106 Jobs, Jobs, Jobs

After last nights post, I'm sure you were all eagerly awaiting the picture of the beautiful prop on Zephyr.  As you can see, she is now a beautiful jewel on our stern.  Lots of polishing and buffing and she is back to what she is meant to be.  Nice and shiny.  I've already had people come up and ask me about it.

We worked on the stern this afternoon trying to get the goo off that was left after the letters were stripped off.  We tried every chemical known to man--or woman for that matter.  What it finally 

took was not so much the chemical but what I rubbed the chemical with.  Tracy suggested one of those "scotch brite" pads.  With lots of chemical and the pad, with lots of rubbing, it finally cut thru it.  After that, we used rubbing compound twice with a power buffer and she was good as new.  We've already ordered new letters and they should be here next week.  The old letters had been weathering and needed replacing.  

The electrician finally came by late this afternoon  and installed the two remaining battery boxes.  Now they will be nice and secure.  They screw down from the outside instead of from the inside so there is no way for stray acid to get out.  The lids also screw down to the case so we are now secure.  Tomorrow, the alternators are set for installation.

The wood worker that is repairing the bow is well on his way to completion.  He keeps coming by the boat to check the angles and position of the new teak to make sure it will be a snug fit.  It takes a lot of cutting to get it just right.  We don't want it to split again.

The transmission guys found the last part today that they needed.  Now we just have to wait for everything to arrive and have it installed. 

Nothing new from the rigger today.  I'm sure the parts are arriving daily.  The boom is just about done.  Can't wait to see how he has redone the lines that are used with it.  Lots of new reefing points(used to make the sail smaller when a  big blow comes up) with lines running inside as well as outside the boom.

Another Liberty owner has sent us an email that he wants to stop by and see us.  He is a new owner but we have alerted him to our sordid history.  We are the black sheep of the Liberty clan.  Most of you know our boats history but for those who don't, ours was the first boat built, but the owners of the company got cheated by the person who bought it--they didn't pay any commission.  While we are a Liberty, we can't call ourselves one.  Legal stuff.

Tomorrow, back to the last winch.  Or maybe start on the sides of Zephyr.  Since the stern came out so well.