Last Day on the Hard

Tuesday 19 June was the last day BV was going to be on the hard.  The big task for the day was servicing all six Blakes seacocks.  They came apart very easily and needed minimal clean-up before being reassembled with lots of lubrication grease.  The bright green looks a little scruffy but is more to do with an anti corrosion waxoil coating applied to the bronze fitting by the first owner than any significant corrosion problem.

A few lengths of sikaflex sealant were replaced around the teak capping the transom and all of the old Coppercoat was given a very light sanding to help activate it.

I finally wired in an extra LED courtesy light on the bottom step of the companion way (It had been ready to be wired in for over a year!) and finished shaping and fitting the bronze liner for the goose neck bolt (pictured left).

After tackling a couple of small filling jobs the state of the stainless steel stanchions, push-pit and pull-pit caught my eye.  After all of the hard work polishing the hull it seemed sensible to finish off the pre-lift in preparation with some polishing work so that we had shiny stainless steel too.

That marked the end of the immediate list of jobs and it was now time to keep fingers crossed hoping that the weather would be suitable and that the crane available to lift BV back into the water and refit the mast the following day.