When Ariadne got up in the fall of last year, the engine also got up. The purpose was to renovate it in the dark evenings of winter and thus ensure that its renovation would not affect Ariadne’s spring renovation schedule. How wrong I was (again). I did bilge repair, engine repair and standard spring maintenance, […]
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Ariadne spring and summer 2022
Mainly just messing around This year’s Ariadne’s summer story is mostly about getting ready to sail, you only get to sail at the end, so if that’s all you’re interested in, you should go to On the move. During the winter, the most memorable Ariadne events of the previous summer were always brought back to […]
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Keel underside paint removal
When the Ariadne was launched in the spring, one of the shipyard workers threw in the idea of leaving Ariadne on the wagon for the weekend to get the bottom of the keel cleaned in autumn. Namely, it needed at least the removal of numerous layers of paint, as it has always seemed to be […]
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Bilge getting closed
The new bilge top plates are getting welded to place and one critical work starts to be ready, at least almost since some paint is of course needed on top of Zinga.
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Spring 2019
DCIM100MEDIADJI_0345.JPG In the early spring, the enthusiasm and plan to get a boat and maybe even both launched into the water went down at the latest when I generated for myself approx. two-week US trip in May. So Johanna and Ariadne had to wait a couple of critical weeks in May without any changes to […]
Read moreAttacking bilge with chisel and hammer
Quite dusty work to clean bilge with chisel and hammer and locating possible rust problems.
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Holes?
What the h..ll? While going thu bilge and possible rusty places I managed to create a hole. First I thought that I made a hole to the integrated water tank, but since I saw daylight thru the hole I understood that there is a hole in the hull….. After a 15 minute break, I studied […]
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