S/V Roshambo, Stuart, Florida

Well I've been working a lot and every day that i have off it rains, I taped out the next phase of painting a week ago and that's as far as I've gotten :(

So this is a bit of a story, but here goes. When we installed the electroscan I didn't have my west marine discount, at the time it called for 2/0 wire to be ran from the battery bank to the electroscan, now at $15 per foot this was a $750 proposition, so I installed one battery and a 55amp charger, well the charger blew up Sunday night, no time like the present right?

Well i have the boat about half painted, i've spent the last two days working on the dinghy or going to work. It would appear that the list is too long to get out of here for the bahamas so we may be postponing.

6 6v golf cart batteries, that was fun getting those on and off the boat.

We also have a new dinghy, a sailing dinghy "Cat Rigged" that will also take a 10 hp motor. I don't have photos yet I am doing some work on it. Replacing the old wood transom with Marine Board and adding the eye bolts so we can put it on the davits. It is a Bufflehead 10 made by Todd boats and it's in beautiful shape. We paid way too much but we've been looking for a sailing dinghy that would take a motor for years.

Yea lots of work, i'm not going to take photos until its done, primered phase 3 today, once it's done I guess I'm halfway there.

Time to move onto the deck painting, hopefully i will remember to take pics tomorrow.

Lots of holes drilled today! We installed the new handrail on the starboard side, however i miscalculated the number of mounting brackets, so we were unable to do the port side.

The boom brake is installed as well as the new stoppers (clutches) man are they nice! I will take photos tomorrow.

Inside and out! I tore the teak handrail off last night and will be replacing it with a stainless handrail yay no more sanding and varnishing. To do so i had to tear the headliner out, Roshambo is officially a wreck inside AND out!

I am rerouting the genny lines and installing new clutches as well as the boom brake so I've started painting the area under that. Should have the first topcoat on tomorrow.

I replaced the cheasy plastic with actual wood and moved some things around, I still have to put the 12v sockets in there, but i will do that later.

The large panel on the left is a new one, i am very happy with it.