I finished sanding GANNET’s wood today. In the process of doing so I have sufficiently sanded my fingertips so that Touch ID no longer works on my iPhone. There is now one coat of Deks Olje on the forward side of the main bulkhead and floorboards, two coats on the aft side of the main bulkead and the counters, and three on the companionway bulkhead.
I took the floorboards onto the dock to sand and in their absence cleaned the bilge as well as I can. The very aft part is unreachable except by a loose hacksaw blade that I use to try to push debris forward to where I can reach it.
Steve Earley wrote that he uses Rustoleum on his generally immaculate SPARTINA and Jim wrote that he has used it and recommends it too. Tomorrow I will go to Home Depot and buy a couple of quarts, rollers, brushes, etc.
Above is San Diego’s seven day forecast. Perfect working weather.
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My bicycle pump arrived today. It is a very nice pump. Sigh. I will keep it in the dock box. I will probably have another bicycle here eventually. Carol and I both have good bikes on the other coast, where they are doing us no good whatsoever.
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The dock box is almost full.
I have continued removing stuff from GANNET.
My plastic sextant. A duffle bag of clothes and my heavy set of foul weather gear. The Jordan Drogue. Various cans of paint and polishes.
Running out of dock storage space I have started to throw things away.
I also decided not to buy another pair of harbor shorts and Levis. I found a pair of Levis that are good except for a small stain on one knee that probably no one will notice. Two pair of harbor shorts and Levis are enough. On GANNET and in the marina I can wear passage/work clothes and change into better when I go ashore.
I learned that some entrepreneurs have set up wi-if covering this basin. Driscoll Marina has none of its own. I thought about signing up, but decided against it. I would watch sports on TV instead of listening to music and reading. I like sports, but music and reading are better. I don’t like TV news. I don’t need TV weather. So I am keeping it simple.
