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Departure day!
August 26-30, 2020 On Wednesday 26th of August we were finally ready for our departure 🙂 Before lunch we worked hard getting everything ready and by 3pm we were ready to leave central Stockholm. On our way out of Stockholm our ship friends on Skeppsholmen honked, really cool! The wind was against us this day and we had plans to eat dinner with Thomas parents at their country house so we only went by engine the first day. We arrived at Vindö later in the evening and had a nice dinner. The following day we set course south through the archipelago accompanied for a while by Thomas parents and some…
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Our days before departure
When we last wrote a blog post we were working hard preparing the topsides for the upcoming paint job, and since then a lot of things has happened. Here follows a summary of what we’ve been up to lately. We plan on writing another more detailed post about our experiences with painting the topsides with roller later, for those who are interested in reading about that. After we were done with primer we sanded it all down and then it was time for the finish. Between each layer of finish we matted it down, and it total we painted 3 layers. After the topsides were done we continued with the…
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Small update
Sorry for before no so bad at updating here, we have been very busing getting everything ready for our departure. We are back in the water and right now we are fixing the final stuff. Within a week we will be off on our sailing adventure, feels pretty unreal. We will update soon what we have done on the boat lately and a lot of other stuff, but right now we work long days so that we can start sailing!
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Bad weather, fishing gear and insurance progress
During the last weeks we haven’t had very good weather here in Stockholm, very cold and rainy so we haven’t been able to make as much progress as we would have liked with the paint job. But, during the rainy days we have been able to get started with all other final jobs we want to do before departure, such as starting with autopilot installation, replacing our old manual windlass with an electrical one and finishing our electrical panel, so at least we haven’t been out of work 😉 Whenever there has been a weather window we have been adding putty and sanded on the topsides until it felt pretty…
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Preparing the topsides
One of the jobs we have on our to-do list for our time on land is to re-paint the topsides. As we also have done some plastic repairs on the attachments on deck it felt like a good idea to re-paint the topsides. So when we were finished sanding below the waterline we just continued with the topsides. Our plan is to paint the topsides first and finish them and then continue painting below the waterline. This way the hull will get maximum time to dry out before we seal it up with epoxy primer. We spent a lot of days sanding, even spent the entire Midsummer weekend by the…
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