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Easter tour and boatwork
It is Easter holiday now which means four days off work. The first day we took a tour with our ship Aline to the island Storön in the archipelago together with some other ships. It was definitely summer feelings in Stockholm with 20 degrees (68 Fahrenheit) and we brought our sliding hatch and Thomas worked with it for a while. We spent one night out and then drove back in the evening. The following day we went to the sailboat to continue working. First up was to add our new stop wire we bought. The old one was glitching and we want to have a reliable stop wire. We still…
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Finalizing the plastic repair in the cockpit (for now)
It was time for us to finalize the plastic repair in the cockpit. Since we had opened a plastic crack with some wet and rotten wood inside, we decided to ground and open up some other small cracks.
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Plastic crack with rotten wood
We opened up a plastic crack in the cockpit of our sailboat. The plastic crack was wet and there were rotten wood inside.
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Repair plastic cracks with fiberglass and polyester
When the plastic cracks had become dry enough it was time to continue the plastic repairs. We repaired the plastic cracks with fiberglass and polyester.
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Cleaning and grounding the plastic cracks
September 2018 When we bought Anne-Mon there were some plastic cracks in the cockpit. We wanted to repair the plastic cracks before the autumn arrived to Sweden, so that they would not get worse. The first, and very important, thing we did to repair the plastic cracks was to make a thorough cleaning of the cockpit. It was very dirty, after 10 years of collecting all kinds of dirt. We grounded the cracks to open them up and to make them dry. We didn’t want to put new fiberglass and polyester on the cracks while they were still wet. Then we would close in the moisture and that would probably…
