Nice job on the bottom paint. It has to be a great feeling knowing Karl has a sound hull and new anodes and anti-foul to protect it. Looking forward to the next chapter.
Be very proud of yourself Captain Nike. You deserve a standing ovation. You never give up. I love it, and I too am very proud of you and your team. Now go sailing.
I did a very similar boat a few years ago. At the age of forty, even as a fit man with considerable expertise and mechanical equipment at my disposal the project still damn near killed me. You have my absolute respect. This is all part of your journey, and it is this that you will remember, not necessarily the destination. In my eyes you have already succeeded.
Karl is looking really good. Lucky little boat to have you bring him back from near death. It has been interesting to see what goes into maintaining the boat and to watch you live the life. It would be cool to see some before and after pics posted on your facebook page. I'm so glad you stuck with this and look forward to seeing you out there in the water again.
WOW Great work!!!...... That must have been a good feeling sitting back having that cool beer looking at all your hard work starting to come together..
Super! A huge job well done. Karl's bottom looks wonderful and I'm sure it's a comfort to know it's also solid and sound.The moisture level inside should be reduced now with the leaks stopped, at least from below, lol. Can't wait to see him back in the water... Regards, Gary
I have to say WhiteSpotPirates I've watched most of your videos and I'm jealous of you plus happy for you at the same time. Your knocking that to do list down to the point where your able to set sail.
Fantastic good news! All is going in the right direction and I am waiting for next video, to have a good lock when the boat will be in the water again. Huray!
Congratulations! That was a big step and a lot of work. Your persistence and can do attitude are inspiring. Looking forward to seeing you get underway. Best Wishes!
Congratulations on the bottom project! I really must say you did a fine job so far with Karl. He sure must be lucky for you found him, else he would have died. Amazing you are still there for him and not have quitted the job. I also admire your way of handling the problems, even though its a hard and dirty job sometimes. I think the rest of your journey will be piece of cake after this. Good winds! P
It`s nice to see all of your video`s and i must say it is addictive. Every week I look forward to your new video. After all the disappointments it will get more and more fun now. It looks great. Thanks for all the videos so far.
I'm putting on another layer of anti-fouling one of my boats this week too. Last year it was blue. This year black. At the end of the season I will know if it needs it again if I see any blue. Love your series. Please keep it up.
yeah, I wanted to have two different colors for the two layers as well...but there was only black available, so I have no chance to use this little trick unfortunately. Good luck for your paint project! Fingers crossed for good weather!!
I wish it was just paint projects... I'm getting 2 of my sail boats ready for bare boat charter in the North Channel of Lake Huron Canada. So I'm going over them very closely and adding everything! Like you with Karl, my list gets smaller ever day. Weather has been the big hold up.
she has been a little busy. getting her boat done, that i am sure takes first priority. so cut her some slack. what she has done on her own in a strange country is up believable in that short amount of time. you go Nick very good job girl.
I must say that I really like the way you have 'stuck at' this project. I think it has cost you 'an arm and a leg' more than you anticipated but if you really want to do 'it' then you have done everything absolutely right. You cannot go to sea without having absolute confidence in the boat. But, do you have confidence in yourself ? Build up confidence gradually - with the help of somebody if needed but don't throw in the towel when confronted with the first storm. You are very alone in a storm on your own - not to mention being sh..t scared.
Stumbled onto your journey a month or so ago during our cold winter in the NE USA I got caught up very quickly. Your doing a very nice job on maintaining and upgrading what some people would toss away. One question I have for you, during the process of restoring the hull, what did you do with the 4 points of Karl's keel resting securely on the blocks?
Another nice video...thank you. Was just wondering what you will do about the spots where Karl is sitting on the jacks? Do you move him just enought to expose them and then do them or...???
Quick question: When you were applying the layers, did you had to move KARL so you could paint the areas where the boat was standing in the keels? Well done with the job. I'll carry on watching the videos.
HMMM, so they welded on the anodes. thats great, they will not fall off. Now in 4 months when they are dissolved, how will you change them? As I diver I change anodes, they are bolts on all the boats I dive on. As a diver, how would I change yours?
you wouldn't, I guess. I would change them on the hard again. But I hope that these ones will last some time...It's not so they won't fall off (of course, they should not do that either, but as I understand it, that's not the reason for welding them on)...it is to have a good electrical connection and to avoid e.g. the use of stainless steel bolts to put into the aluminium.
WhiteSpotPirates they could have done it two other ways that would have worked great! Either welding aluminum studs on, or welding aluminum nuts on. They will dissolve quickly. long before you need to haul out again. at most 8 months, in warm water. In reality you only needed one. As long as everything else is electronically bound to it. Is it too late to weld on a pair of nuts? If not, have them weld on two large nuts, then you can bolt on a zinc.
That weldor is an idiot. First, he didn't weld on threaded aluminum backing plates for the anodes, and second he tries to weld Nike and gives her a very large and dangerous shock. What a moron.
Looking great! Glad to see all the zincs, you can't have to many on a metal boat! Did you move the jack stands and paint under them also? Can't wait to see Karl back in the water!
yes, the good thing with the twin keels is that you don't really need he jack stands, so I just removed them to put on the paint. They just put them for extra security, I think.
Great to see you approaching the point where you can splash Karl. I am curious about the way that you mounted the zincs though. It appeared that you welded the zinc directly to the hull. I believe that you should have welded a mounting plate to which you bolt the zincs. This way you will not need to have your (interesting) welder friend come to the boat every time that you want to change the zinc. You would merely need to unbolt the zinc, and bolt on a new one. This could even be done while Karl is in the water.
well, I have those mountings plates in the back and they are welded on to those. I have read a couple of articles and talked to some aluminium boat owners and they told me that this was the best way of doing it. And I hope that next time that I have to change them, it will be a different welder friend. Not because I did not like this one, but because I hope that I will be far away from Panama by then ;)
To late now, but you could have put pvc pipe or tubing in the thru hull fittings, sticking out 12 " or so and you would have not had the water dripping on the paint issue.. Good job. :-)
11,20m. I will try to sail him solo, yes. But for the first next trials I will probably have someone going with me. And also, I hope that from time to time, there will be some friends coming along and people that I can learn from. But the aim is to feel comfortable to sail him alone, yes.
those are sacrificial zink anodes. They protect the aluminium from getting eaten away by galvanic corrosion when it comes into contact with a nobler metals like stainless steel (e.g. prop shaft) in an electrolyte (saltwate in this case). I hope I said that right...better google it if you want to make sure you get the whole background about the process of how one metal has higher electrode potential than the other and how the ions migrate from one to the other etc.
Well it seems that Karl is already in the water... looking at the last minutes of the video. The boat shouldn't be rocking that much on stands ... Nice video though - keep'em coming.
I put two layers of antifouling and have one gallon left for repainting (so I don't have to rely on availability of the paint next time I want to paint). I do have to double check though, if the paint will go off after some certain time of storage...
Thank you so much for your support! The plan is to get to know the boat on the water now and then to see what happens :). Step by step. But I am still dreaming of going to the Pacific, that for sure ;)
Hey Nike...thanks I'll look it up. I'm just watching episode 34. I just started watching your trip a week ago...your amazing....when I was a kid ages 8-12 I used to refinish the bottom of our family cabin cruiser, including replacing planks and a lot,lot lot of sanding...I really felt for you when you sanded Karl. Love your tenacity. Love the show. Thanks.
like hell. my head was completely wobbly for a moment and I fell backwards on the floor. But I did recover, obviously :). He just said to me: "ah, that happens all the time to me, don't worry girl".
Bombastic! On track to getting wet! On the business side, you are using the GoPro, yes? Any pluses or minuses? I am thinking of following your footsteps and will need a camera for wet and rough use. Also, I noticed Katadyn as a sponsor. Comments? You haven't had to rely on it yet (I don't think) but if you have feedback I'd appreciate it. May you have a trouble free launching!
I do use a GoPro, yes. The Hero 3 white edition. pros: super small, super easy to use, good quality of videos cons: I am not happy with the mounting devices. now I mostly use the base that it stands on when you buy it. But with that you always have to tie it to sth so it does not fall...I bought the mount with this rubbery thing that is supposed to stick to the surface, but it will only hold (and also not very well), if the surface is perfectly flat and super clean. but I think they did release some new mounts so maybe I have to check out one of them... what has annoyed me a lot is the fact, that it often happens to me, that when I put the camera into the case, I touch the wifi button by accident which leads to the result, that the battery runs flat super quick (if you don't notive it). For me, the wifi button is not very significant, so I would prefer not to have it there but inside... As I am not a pro and have no comparison to other action cameras and don't know about video quality, I cannot tell you anything more than these short comments... I applied as a tester for the new Garmin camera...so I hope I get the chance to test that and see the difference. For my grab bag, I got a manual water maker from Katadyn. I did not try it out yet, but I have it for security. It's not very big and it gives me a lot of peace of mind when I think about the moment that I might have to abandon my boat to go into the liferaft...I am probably going to do an episode about what's in the grab bag one day and then there will be some info on the watermaker as well.
Thank you much! If the GoPro is what you use exclusively, then picture quality is just fine. I suspect you have experience or a natural talent in cinematography, though. I have read and heard many complaints about the wifi button! Seeing your product and others I think the GP is the way to go (with suitable hacks for mounting) I plan to install an electric water maker and have a small manual in the grab bag. Look forward to your video on the grab bag. eric
WhiteSpotPirates For GP mounting there are 3 things that I find useful. 1 - they have an adapter for a standard camera mount thread and that opens up your options not only to standard tripods but also the whole world of camera mounting gizmos. 2 - the pole strap. I found a good one on Amazon which can strap to a rail/pole/stick/tree that is anywhere between 1" - 3" in diameter. It works real well on our boat. 3 - for action shots, I love the chest strap. Its in a good location to give people point of view and they can see what your hands are doing when you are working on stuff. Per cameras, the GP is industry leader, but I also have the Contour. Image quality and color depth is better on the Contour (by a hair) and the bullet shape gives itself to mounting better, somehow. It's angle is also not as wide which is bad for up close work, but it also does not have the fish-eye curve to its shots. Your welder guy is an idiot! The moment I saw what he was doing I thought, "this is going to end badly" and then you mentioned that he electrocuted you. Anyone that has done any amount of welding will tell you that they bend the rules. He didnt have or didnt bring a proper clamp - happens. But he should have instilled in you the necessity of NOT touching the grounded hull while spotting the anode for him. You know - he could have stopped your heart! Glad to see that you got those anodes through!
6 months of your life goes by in an afternoon of YT. You've learnt so much about your Karl now. You know him inside and out.
Nice job on the bottom paint.
It has to be a great feeling knowing Karl has a sound hull and new anodes and anti-foul to protect it.
Looking forward to the next chapter.
Be very proud of yourself Captain Nike. You deserve a standing ovation. You never give up. I love it, and I too am very proud of you and your team. Now go sailing.
I did a very similar boat a few years ago. At the age of forty, even as a fit man with considerable expertise and mechanical equipment at my disposal the project still damn near killed me. You have my absolute respect. This is all part of your journey, and it is this that you will remember, not necessarily the destination. In my eyes you have already succeeded.
You and KARL have come a long way! Good for you and we're all looking forward to seeing you sail!!
Beautiful job under difficult circumstances! I salute you.
you have worked so hard on Karl u should be very proud of yourself Karl is made of blood sweat and tears aswell as aluminium and wood
Karl is looking great! Good job!
Glad to see you put epoxy over the welded areas. This seems necessary after reading about the temporary nature of the welding technique.
You are an amazing young woman! Thanks again for letting us share in your adventure.
Well done. Karl is so lucky to have you...Rock o!
Karl is looking really good. Lucky little boat to have you bring him back from near death. It has been interesting to see what goes into maintaining the boat and to watch you live the life. It would be cool to see some before and after pics posted on your facebook page. I'm so glad you stuck with this and look forward to seeing you out there in the water again.
Hey! It's so nice that you don't give up! Hope you'll be in the water with Karl soon!
You have done a tremendous amount of work on the boat.
Wishing you well.
WOW Great work!!!...... That must have been a good feeling sitting back having that cool beer looking at all your hard work starting to come together..
Super! A huge job well done. Karl's bottom looks wonderful and I'm sure it's a comfort to know it's also solid and sound.The moisture level inside should be reduced now with the leaks stopped, at least from below, lol. Can't wait to see him back in the water...
Regards, Gary
I have to say WhiteSpotPirates I've watched most of your videos and I'm jealous of you plus happy for you at the same time. Your knocking that to do list down to the point where your able to set sail.
Fantastic good news! All is going in the right direction and I am waiting for next video, to have a good lock when the boat will be in the water again. Huray!
The black is coooool! Never seen a hull painted that color before, I approve. :)
Great job! Love how you've stuck with this, even through all of the struggles. You're an inspiration!
YEA KARL!!!
So happy for you, you had me worried there for a moment.
Karl looks like new job well done:) looking forward to seeing your further adventures .
We have been following your progress in the sailing portal at SSN Satellite Sports Network. Thanks for the update.
Karl looks awesome!!
Congratulations! That was a big step and a lot of work. Your persistence and can do attitude are inspiring. Looking forward to seeing you get underway. Best Wishes!
I am so happy for you, Karl looks great!!
Karl is looking fantastic!! You must be so proud of your work to this point?
So good to see. Next step some water round Karl. Fair winds when it happens.
Congratulations on the bottom project! I really must say you did a fine job so far with Karl. He sure must be lucky for you found him, else he would have died. Amazing you are still there for him and not have quitted the job. I also admire your way of handling the problems, even though its a hard and dirty job sometimes. I think the rest of your journey will be piece of cake after this. Good winds! P
Karl looks great and keep up the good work!
It`s nice to see all of your video`s and i must say it is addictive. Every week I look forward to your new video. After all the disappointments it will get more and more fun now. It looks great. Thanks for all the videos so far.
Looks great! The hull is to the boat what the roof is the house. Great job.
I'm putting on another layer of anti-fouling one of my boats this week too. Last year it was blue. This year black. At the end of the season I will know if it needs it again if I see any blue.
Love your series. Please keep it up.
yeah, I wanted to have two different colors for the two layers as well...but there was only black available, so I have no chance to use this little trick unfortunately. Good luck for your paint project! Fingers crossed for good weather!!
I wish it was just paint projects... I'm getting 2 of my sail boats ready for bare boat charter in the North Channel of Lake Huron Canada. So I'm going over them very closely and adding everything!
Like you with Karl, my list gets smaller ever day. Weather has been the big hold up.
Karl is looking good!
Great work! What projects do you have going on inside the boat during the rainy days and when you are waiting for the paint to dry???
Oh man, I can't wait until next week, hope you'll be back in the water!
definitely :)
wow! very impressive work you have done !
Nice work!
looks real good, glad to see the new zincs......................
Nice new robe Karl, so you better not let her down from now on or else!
Very nice to see your getting ahead, And things are looking up.
I was hoping for a double feature ...since I missed you last friday .
well, you did get nearly 7min. That's much more than you usually get ;).
she has been a little busy. getting her boat done, that i am sure takes first priority. so cut her some slack. what she has done on her own in a strange country is up believable in that short amount of time. you go Nick very good job girl.
I must say that I really like the way you have 'stuck at' this project. I think it has cost you 'an arm and a leg' more than you anticipated but if you really want to do 'it' then you have done everything absolutely right. You cannot go to sea without having absolute confidence in the boat. But, do you have confidence in yourself ? Build up confidence gradually - with the help of somebody if needed but don't throw in the towel when confronted with the first storm. You are very alone in a storm on your own - not to mention being sh..t scared.
He's ready to go back into the water are great words..
Karl is looking good.
Stumbled onto your journey a month or so ago during our cold winter in the NE USA I got caught up very quickly. Your doing a very nice job on maintaining and upgrading what some people would toss away. One question I have for you, during the process of restoring the hull, what did you do with the 4 points of Karl's keel resting securely on the blocks?
Another nice video...thank you. Was just wondering what you will do about the spots where Karl is sitting on the jacks? Do you move him just enought to expose them and then do them or...???
Good progress!
GREAT JOB !
Quick question: When you were applying the layers, did you had to move KARL so you could paint the areas where the boat was standing in the keels?
Well done with the job.
I'll carry on watching the videos.
her bottom looks great....and Karl's too!!!
looking good there
HMMM, so they welded on the anodes. thats great, they will not fall off. Now in 4 months when they are dissolved, how will you change them? As I diver I change anodes, they are bolts on all the boats I dive on. As a diver, how would I change yours?
you wouldn't, I guess. I would change them on the hard again. But I hope that these ones will last some time...It's not so they won't fall off (of course, they should not do that either, but as I understand it, that's not the reason for welding them on)...it is to have a good electrical connection and to avoid e.g. the use of stainless steel bolts to put into the aluminium.
WhiteSpotPirates
they could have done it two other ways that would have worked great! Either welding aluminum studs on, or welding aluminum nuts on. They will dissolve quickly. long before you need to haul out again. at most 8 months, in warm water. In reality you only needed one. As long as everything else is electronically bound to it. Is it too late to weld on a pair of nuts? If not, have them weld on two large nuts, then you can bolt on a zinc.
That weldor is an idiot. First, he didn't weld on threaded aluminum backing plates for the anodes, and second he tries to weld Nike and gives her a very large and dangerous shock. What a moron.
Looking great! Glad to see all the zincs, you can't have to many on a metal boat! Did you move the jack stands and paint under them also? Can't wait to see Karl back in the water!
yes, the good thing with the twin keels is that you don't really need he jack stands, so I just removed them to put on the paint. They just put them for extra security, I think.
Great to see you approaching the point where you can splash Karl. I am curious about the way that you mounted the zincs though. It appeared that you welded the zinc directly to the hull. I believe that you should have welded a mounting plate to which you bolt the zincs. This way you will not need to have your (interesting) welder friend come to the boat every time that you want to change the zinc. You would merely need to unbolt the zinc, and bolt on a new one. This could even be done while Karl is in the water.
well, I have those mountings plates in the back and they are welded on to those. I have read a couple of articles and talked to some aluminium boat owners and they told me that this was the best way of doing it. And I hope that next time that I have to change them, it will be a different welder friend. Not because I did not like this one, but because I hope that I will be far away from Panama by then ;)
O'day 35 I have understood that a metal hull is in use the requirement is 2 different primers. Please keep an eye on the hull.
Looking good :)
That bottom job looks really good. I hope it lasts for you.
~Daniel
To late now, but you could have put pvc pipe or tubing in the thru hull fittings, sticking out 12 " or so and you would have not had the water dripping on the paint issue.. Good job. :-)
Hi Fleugar OutDoors, bit too late for that time, but great advice for the next paint job which is about to come soon :). Thank you!
Ahoy, Nike
Very chic! Good call on the extra anodes too ;)
Awesomely wonderful. Karl looks good. He looks like he wants to go play. How long before he can go in the water? Time to go sailing?
1:25 it seems like the boat is allready in the water...or on very shaky ground.
***** you are correct, Karl is very happy!
***** I can't fool you guys, can I ;)?
you had me fooled, until Sirdgar gave me a hint to look closer at the video
Hey, I love your vids! I wan't to do something like that one day ^^. I was wondering what the length of your boat is. ?
11,2m LOA
How long is Karl ?
Do you plan to be sailing solo in it?
11,20m. I will try to sail him solo, yes. But for the first next trials I will probably have someone going with me. And also, I hope that from time to time, there will be some friends coming along and people that I can learn from. But the aim is to feel comfortable to sail him alone, yes.
Looking Good - Wish you would do more videos - Really enjoyable.
Can you please explain for dummies what this thing is the bearded man welded to the boat? ;-)
those are sacrificial zink anodes. They protect the aluminium from getting eaten away by galvanic corrosion when it comes into contact with a nobler metals like stainless steel (e.g. prop shaft) in an electrolyte (saltwate in this case). I hope I said that right...better google it if you want to make sure you get the whole background about the process of how one metal has higher electrode potential than the other and how the ions migrate from one to the other etc.
WhiteSpotPirates Thx! Big ups to the "Opferanode" :-D
Well it seems that Karl is already in the water... looking at the last minutes of the video. The boat shouldn't be rocking that much on stands ...
Nice video though - keep'em coming.
How many layers did you put on of anti fouling paint?
I put two layers of antifouling and have one gallon left for repainting (so I don't have to rely on availability of the paint next time I want to paint). I do have to double check though, if the paint will go off after some certain time of storage...
He needs a red and yellow stripe👌🏻
Hi, warum immer nur so kurz :-(
Auf jeden Fall aber vielen Dank :-)
hey, ihr habt immerhin fast 7 Minuten bekommen dieses Mal. Mehr als sonst ;).
I have donated 10$ again. I could not wait until next week party.
Bon voyage.
And are your plans for sailing still the same?
Thank you so much for your support! The plan is to get to know the boat on the water now and then to see what happens :). Step by step. But I am still dreaming of going to the Pacific, that for sure ;)
So, untie the lines... ;-)
The upper hull could need a drop or two of color too.
hehe, I know. and now that the bottom is so nice and new, the bad spots on the top really catch your eye...another project for another day...
what make and year is Karl? and..how long is he?
Hey Richard, you can find some info on Karl on my website if you like whitespotpirates.com/untie-the-lines/my-boat-karl/
Ahoy, Nike & Karl
Hey Nike...thanks I'll look it up. I'm just watching episode 34.
I just started watching your trip a week ago...your amazing....when I was a kid ages 8-12 I used to refinish the bottom of our family cabin cruiser, including replacing planks and a lot,lot lot of sanding...I really felt for you when you sanded Karl. Love your tenacity. Love the show. Thanks.
First! I was wondering when your next episode was going to arrive! She's starting to look better!
There are a few things I would like to say...YAY! YAY! HURAY! :+)
yesssssss !!!
I can't believe you got zapped by an arc welder. Crap, that's gotta hurt!
like hell. my head was completely wobbly for a moment and I fell backwards on the floor. But I did recover, obviously :). He just said to me: "ah, that happens all the time to me, don't worry girl".
I'ts time to celebrate....next step will put the boat in the water...Go ahead, darling--
Bombastic! On track to getting wet! On the business side, you are using the GoPro, yes? Any pluses or minuses? I am thinking of following your footsteps and will need a camera for wet and rough use. Also, I noticed Katadyn as a sponsor. Comments? You haven't had to rely on it yet (I don't think) but if you have feedback I'd appreciate it.
May you have a trouble free launching!
I do use a GoPro, yes. The Hero 3 white edition.
pros: super small, super easy to use, good quality of videos
cons: I am not happy with the mounting devices. now I mostly use the base that it stands on when you buy it. But with that you always have to tie it to sth so it does not fall...I bought the mount with this rubbery thing that is supposed to stick to the surface, but it will only hold (and also not very well), if the surface is perfectly flat and super clean. but I think they did release some new mounts so maybe I have to check out one of them...
what has annoyed me a lot is the fact, that it often happens to me, that when I put the camera into the case, I touch the wifi button by accident which leads to the result, that the battery runs flat super quick (if you don't notive it). For me, the wifi button is not very significant, so I would prefer not to have it there but inside...
As I am not a pro and have no comparison to other action cameras and don't know about video quality, I cannot tell you anything more than these short comments...
I applied as a tester for the new Garmin camera...so I hope I get the chance to test that and see the difference.
For my grab bag, I got a manual water maker from Katadyn. I did not try it out yet, but I have it for security. It's not very big and it gives me a lot of peace of mind when I think about the moment that I might have to abandon my boat to go into the liferaft...I am probably going to do an episode about what's in the grab bag one day and then there will be some info on the watermaker as well.
Thank you much! If the GoPro is what you use exclusively, then picture quality is just fine. I suspect you have experience or a natural talent in cinematography, though. I have read and heard many complaints about the wifi button! Seeing your product and others I think the GP is the way to go (with suitable hacks for mounting)
I plan to install an electric water maker and have a small manual in the grab bag. Look forward to your video on the grab bag.
eric
WhiteSpotPirates For GP mounting there are 3 things that I find useful. 1 - they have an adapter for a standard camera mount thread and that opens up your options not only to standard tripods but also the whole world of camera mounting gizmos. 2 - the pole strap. I found a good one on Amazon which can strap to a rail/pole/stick/tree that is anywhere between 1" - 3" in diameter. It works real well on our boat. 3 - for action shots, I love the chest strap. Its in a good location to give people point of view and they can see what your hands are doing when you are working on stuff.
Per cameras, the GP is industry leader, but I also have the Contour. Image quality and color depth is better on the Contour (by a hair) and the bullet shape gives itself to mounting better, somehow. It's angle is also not as wide which is bad for up close work, but it also does not have the fish-eye curve to its shots.
Your welder guy is an idiot! The moment I saw what he was doing I thought, "this is going to end badly" and then you mentioned that he electrocuted you. Anyone that has done any amount of welding will tell you that they bend the rules. He didnt have or didnt bring a proper clamp - happens. But he should have instilled in you the necessity of NOT touching the grounded hull while spotting the anode for him. You know - he could have stopped your heart!
Glad to see that you got those anodes through!
I am soo jealous.
What happens after this? Will you truly be ready to "untie the lines"?
there is a lot of work left, but I will try to UTL as soon as possible and leave the work that I can also do at anchor for later.
More anodes is good !