One more weekend of work

The weather wasn't good on Saturday so we decided to spend our time masking off the teak trim in the cabin and, after cleaning and sanding, applying some Sikken Cetrol. That went well enough although it always amazes us how much painter's tape it takes to mask what doesn't look like much trim. We learned from experience that you can't rush projects like this. We won't be able to mask off the teak and paint the wall surfaces until next weekend.

On Sunday morning, we began finding and fixing the leak in our old inflatable, which we will use at Block Island in a couple of weeks. We manged to get the inflatable off the back of the boat, pump it up and soon found the leak. It was at a seam but it appeared to be something we could fix with a patch.  We've done this several times before on this thing so we thought it would be something we could do in an afternoon.

Unfortunately, our patch kit didn't have any more of the needed adhesive so we drove to Defender Marine in Waterford for another patch kit. We found one immediately but once we got it back to the boat, we found that it didn't include the adhesive we needed. Frances jumped on the phone and was told that they had removed the adhesive from each kit because they weren't happy with its performance.

Unfortunately, they forgot to put new adhesive in the kits in their warehouse outlet so once we got back to the boat, we had nothing to complete the patch.

We put some green painter's tape on the leak, pumped the inflatable back up and put it back on the davits on the back of the boat. Defender promised to send us the right adhesive this week so we'll get everything fixed next weekend.

Once we finish these last few projects, we're off for a few days in Greenport, one of our favorite places. Then we're heading off for a week on Block Island, where we won't fix anything but just enjoy ourselves.