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Home » Grey Viking News » Annual Maintenance – Day 2

Annual Maintenance – Day 2

BY Mick - UPDATED 22/06/2015

Well the work started in earnest today.  We got down to the boat yard around 9am and decided that I would crack on with cleaning the rudders and the propellers and Ray would start cutting the gel coat whilst Steve was working on the sea cocks.

These pictures will show you what we were starting with…Propeller and Rudder BeforeThese will need some scraping and sanding!

Gel Coat before CuttingA bit of elbow grease will soon bring back the shine!

So out came the tools and we all got our heads down for a good hour or two before giving in to the temptation of putting the kettle on for a brew.  Given the amount of dust flying around it seemed we were going to need quite a few of these today.

An early assessment over coffee was pleasing and at the rate we were working it looked like we were going to get a good amount of work done by home time.

By lunchtime the seacocks were done, Ray had sanded down the anti-foul and cut a quarter of the gel coat and I had got the worst of the crud off the starboard rudder and propeller.

The afternoon saw more of the gel coat cut, the stern glands packed and some of the hosing and clips replaced.  Also most of the crud was now removed from the propellers etc and some of the woodwork sanded down.  This is how we left it and the work will continue again tomorrow.

Propeller and Rudder almost done

Just a little more to finish off!

Starting to look betterTo be continued………

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Mick was a contributor to this blog between 2009 and 2010.

Comments

  1. Beth says

    09/02/2010 at 19:17

    It looks so much nicer clean 😉
    Hard work though i imagine 🙂
    Looking good. 😛

    • Mick says

      09/02/2010 at 19:52

      I ground down a couple of finger nails but it will all be worth it and she should stay nice and clean as the fishing wont require tons of cuttle and all that black ink lol 😮

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