Hilton Head Island: decked and four poems by Hanshan

 

I finished painting the cockpit this morning with Petit Easypoxy.  A few days ago I painted the deck areas between the Raptor nonskid pads with Kiwigrip.  This is the second time I have used Kiwigrip.  I had hoped that it would last, but seemingly nothing does in the heat and humidity of the marsh and it chipped and cracked like every other coating I have tried.  So I have checked ‘deck’ off my to do list.  But in viewing the top photo I see that I need to repaint the carbon fiber bowsprit.  So the list is still as long as it was.

I did not do a perfect job.  GANNET is a work boat.  A tool of the trade.  She does look better and she passes the ‘viewed from a boat length away’ test.

Next the interior, which will not be pleasant.  GANNET does not have good ventilation below and even with the hatches open it will be hot.  Working on deck I had to stop at 10 AM because of the heat.  

The interior should take three days.  One to scrape and sand loose paint.  One to paint the forepeak.  One The Great Cabin and over and beside the pipe berths.  

I have written of Hanshan, also known as Cold Mountain after the peak on which he was a hermit, here before.  He is a legendary Chinese poet or poets who lived perhaps about 600 A.D.  There are scholars who believe that the poems attributed to Hanshan were written by three different poets over two centuries.  Part of the legend is that he scratched his poems on rocks and trees.  

Here are four.