Well after over a month of looking like an itinerant gypsy's boat complete with big blue tarpaulin Kadoona is now looking better than ever and (touch wood) no longer leaking like a good thing through the pilot house windows! What a drama those windows were. Suffice to say I'd be quite happy to never, ever, have to do that job again. The elements didn't exactly help the situation throwing everything from wind and rain to dust storms at us for the duration but now they are in it has all been worth it. Plans were afoot to have a nice stainless frame made for each window but after much running around and promisses from a metal manufacturer I had enough of waiting on other people and broken promisses and decided to go ahead and put the windows in using the black sika-flex and not worry about the aesthetics of it, after all the boat is made to sail across oceans not to be a fashion accessory. As luck would have it the windows actually look very good in their black frames, now for the rest of the pilot house followed by ohhhh everything else.... While the windows were out we tackled the inside of the pilot house which is around the galley/nav table area. Man what a difference a bit of sanding and a few coats of paint make, only drama now is that the rest of the interior looks in poor condition compared to the shiny white new paint. Oh well, here we go again.
Its November and Kadoona is still without windows, well thats not technically correct. She has windows they are just sitting in the aft cabin. I tried to get some stainless frames made up so the windows would look better when in place as I need to use black sika-flex to install them. All looked good for a while, found a place that claimed they could knock them up for a reasonable price but after two weeks I had to go and collect my windows without the frames, turned out it was a more difficult job than they originally thought, something about radius of curves on the edges. So the long and short of it, the windows are going in with the black sika-flex and I'll just have to get used to the look of them I guess. The frames are painted and ready, next job will be to put the windows in place......
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AuthorKnown to most of the world simply as "Hef". Full name Ian Heffernan, Ian to his parents, girlfriend and oddly enough most Australians, strange as they have a tendency to give most things a nickname? Master Mariner, MED III, Compass Adjuster, Sailing Instructor, Antarctic Hero (rtd), all round nice guy :) Archives
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