Bottom paint

It's been a busy few weekends around home with Ashley's craft shows, so we are behind schedule and a Memorial Day weekend launch is not going to happen. Oh well, no point in dwelling!

I got my new used compass, a Plastimo Olympic 185. I had to enlarge the opening in the binnacle for it to fit, but the size is perfect. I haven't screwed it down yet though because I am planning on replacing the red incandescent lighting with green led lighting.

I finally ordered bottom paint yesterday. I had been putting it off because the price made it hard to swallow, but waiting has paid off! I wasn't 100% sure that one gallon would be enough, but I didn't want to buy more than a gallon if I didn't need it. Lucky for me West Marine had one of their bottom paints (the hard kind, not the ablative) on sale for buy one, get one free. I got my extra if I need it, but I only had to buy one gallon!

We're also done with painting the mast. It's not as good as if I had stripped it to bare metal and primed it, but it is most definitely better than it was and should look good for at least a few years. This weekend my goal is to rewire it, run my new antenna wire, get it on the boat and hoisted. My plexiglass for the cabin windows should be here on Saturday, but I don't think I'll have time to get started on that. I also purchased a used vhf radio for it, a Uniden President LTD950. It's fairly old, 1990, but looks very good for its age and other than the internal speaker not working, it seems to function well. I could replace the internal speaker if I wanted, but I think I'll just opt for an external speaker. I may actually already own one.