NEW ENGINE!

As of Friday night, the O'Kaye has a new power plant. It is a 2004 mercury 9.9 remote, electric start outboard. It was a dealership display model and has 0 hours on it, and comes with a factory warranty that started Friday. I also am just about finished with the new electric panel for the boat. A coat or two of paint and it will be ready to go. I found out the weekend before this one that i need to replace all of the thru-hulls and seacocks on the boat. I found a website that was having a great sale and got all of them for $142. The one seaock sells for over $90 alone normally. I also started mounting a winch on the cabin top as part of my project to run the halyards to the cockpit. Here are pics of the motor and the winch.

31JAN, 1FEB

So still no pics for the last post, but i have some for this one. Because of the weather we have been having, the boat yard currently looks like a ice rink. This weekend we mainly worked on Tai's boat. We did some fiberglass work and also cleaned/organized the engine compartments and back of the boat. For my boat we got a lot of the woodwork sanded and some of it coated with polyurethane. I also sanded down my rudder shaft and sanded the bearings smooth. When i finished sanding the rudder post, i used west systems aluminum etch to prep it for receiving a coat of epoxy. I also figured out how/where to mount my new toilet. Here are some pictures. There will be no post for next weekend since Jamie will be here for the formal, but the weekend after that is another long weekend so lots of work should be getting done. The pictures are of the boat with the cover on, the icy boat yard, the rudder tube, and the old toilet.