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The PVC skeleton frame from the starboard side.
(Nov. 19, 2006) |
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From the stern, frame completed. Tomorrow I'll dig
out the tarps and cover the frame and boat. |
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Boy, Chip Mate, the dinghy, sure took a beating down at
the dinghy dock this season. Despite my
belated addition of
fenders, the boats alongside it pounded away, often riding up over Chip
Mate's gunwales (and new cover, wearing out holes in it as well). When the other
dinghies were removed for the season, the decrepit skiff on one side
just pushed Chip Mate against the dock, doing this damage to the bow.
Yes, those used to be registration numbers where the hole was worn
through the gel coat. |
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While on its mooring, I didn't think the
hole caused by
the loose anchor had gone all the way through the fiberglass.
Obviously I was wrong, and have some fiberglass work to do on this bow
as well as the dinghy's. Not a good season for port side bows in
my personal fleet! |
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This afternoon Wally Riddle came by and we
set out to cover our boats for the coming winter. (Nov. 20, 2006) |
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Two tarps cover each boat, over our respective PVC
skeleton frames. Wally's "Carpe Diem" is parked behind Chip Ahoy. |
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"Chip Mate," the dinghy, rests on wood pallets between
our boats. I've still got to toss a tarp over it tomorrow and anchor the
tarp with stones. |
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Chip Ahoy, covered from the base of its mast
and roller-furler drum over the bow to its
anchor light atop the mast. I run a line from the back of the tarp
to a nearby tree limb. If I need to get into the boat after it's
covered, I can loosen the tarp around the transom, pull the ladder up, and
climb aboard beneath the tarp. |
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Wally securing his one-piece PVC skeleton frame
to "Carpe Diem's" starboard side stanchions and lifelines.
First seeing his
frame last fall inspired my to build my own. With a frame over
the mast, snow slides right off as soon as it collects enough weight and
mass: It doesn't catch and pocket at the lifelines before it can. |
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Securing the port side of his frame. |
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Chip Ahoy and Carpe Diem (behind it) covered for the
winter. (Nov. 21, 2006) |
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Still unseasonably warm, yesterday I uncovered Chip
Ahoy's starboard side cockpit and installed the newly-rechromed fuel
locker cowl vents. Today I tightened them into the bedding
compound, then recovered the boat -- now likely until spring.
(Dec. 17, 2006)
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