Progress Not Perfection

May 23, 2013

The bow area seems to be looking quite good.

Well, some may have wondered what is happening these days.   Mary and I have been traveling and I have had to be patient with the progress on my boat.   We left for Israel early in April and I left the painter (who I shall continue calling Jim) to work while I was gone on vacation.   When I got back the work had turned into an art project and I decided to fire the artist.   Within a few days I had located a "recommended" painter and hired him to finish the deck.   Now I seem to remember reading a story by Jack London about a boat he had bought and spent a lot of money rebuilding it to go to sea.    I laughed at how he kept pouring more and more money into his rebuild.   He had the money and so he did it.   I can really identify with Jack now, however, I am not laughing quite as much when it was him doing it. Mary and I left in early May for our next adventure in traveling, this time on a small ship along the East coast of the US.   

Note the absence of  blue non-skid.   The non-skid is now a light tan.

Now this time, I had met the fellow in the slip next to my boat and he agreed to keep me posted on my new painter.   He just sent me the first pictures of the new work.   This painter is only painting the non-skid parts.   Not only is the new fellow a reliable boat painter (not an artist though) he can stay on schedule and actually do the work he says he will do.   The painting will need a bit of personal help by me when I get back, but that will be a great learning experience.   Check out some of these pictures...

Mary and I will be home at the end of the first week in June.