1995 saw an upgrade to a new yacht a 1969 or 70 27 foot Fairliner I bought for $300.

                    1996 saw some water

Eventually made it back to my old up and down the Gorge booze crooze. This time I was drinking Ginger Ale.

Inadequate repairs were substandard and lacklustre so after several years of near use it was time to replace the remaining decks not replaced in prior refits.

    There were some complicated compound angles but I feel pretty good about the job Chuck Mark Jerome and I effected over the Month of September 2003

    Last shot while still in Oak Bay. $240+ a month to keep this dream afloat was not appealing.

            Sunny Shores we lifted her out after 5 years or 9 whatever.

    Here I paid $114.50 to have the bottom pressure washed. $$ well spent. When I came back she was all blocked up ready to start work.

Deck repair looks pretty good for a dockside repair a year later.  Here I'm moving the rear rail to the transom freeing up deck space. This later turned out to be a brilliant idea. The deck opened up and the top of transom now has rod holders downriggers and seating . But there was much work to do before any of that would reach completion.

    And there was some work top do. Aside from the usual bottom scrape and paint, prop renew, zinc replacement I found that all those years I had been beaching my yacht on Discovery Chatham Sidney and other islands had rubbed my protective toxic coating off and the exposed wood began to become home for worms. The worms and their worm holes ran several feet of the forward keel.

But it had been a while since it was out. 96 in 2004 out or something like that.

                                                                            Maestro

                                                                        Let the games begin

                                                                    marking the leak

                                                                        10 feet of the keel was replaced

                                                            The stem was pretty good however the tip was not so much.

                                                                Does anybody work here?

                                                                        a lil bit   

                                                                                                from time to time

                                             150 hrs at this point excluding the deck repairs which were 100 or so.

                                                Another 50 wraps up this session but there's plenty left to do.

                                                    Much is new though!

                                                                                        Stem to Stern

                                        SPLASHDOWN!

                            Time for FUN!