I believe we have won this one! From forward to aft, we scraped, chipped and needlegunned everything down in the netherlands below the engine etc.....removing all loose paint and treating the metal, then priming, epoxying and topcoating till everything is clean and new! Hopefully to stay that way for many years! And now I have been busy stripping hardware off the topsides as we have decided to repaint the decks and cabintop where the years and ocean passages have not been kind! RUST BE GONE!!
It is a hard life, here in paradise! But the beer is still cold and the people move at their own timeless hypnotic pace so....BULA BULA....and we will get Toketie back into sailing trim! We still have not decided what lies ahead....but when the first mate returns in June we will look to that....perhaps New Caledonia! Australia? So many choices here in the S Pacific!
Meanwhile it is 30 degrees in the cabin and more when the sun beats down...the humidity hovers between high and higher.....but it still beats going to the office!!
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