March 26 - more paint, pox and paddle

Trip dates: 
Wednesday, March 26, 2025
Trip length: 
1 day
Type of watercraft: 
Kayak/canoe/rowboat
  • Un-kicked glop
  • relief form 20-25 kn breeze
  • about 75% of rot out
  • visitor section of cockpit
  • street legal

Same drill. 

Attack rotten ply core, paint & install new head floor, and paddle out to the cove (in the lee of shore) for lunch. I also got a look at my mooring for 2025 and it needs work. It's coated with slime and barnacles. Before I move RAINBOW I have to clean this thing up.

Ospreys have shown up in force and one hung out about 50 feet away, squawking constantly and competing with crows and kin for a coveted spot in the nearby trees.

On a down note, I laid-up some epoxy/e-glass in two or three leaky spots cockpit hatch spots. It never got as warm and I'd expected and I had to leave with the stuff still un-kicked. I like to babysit epoxy lay ups when they've almost fully kicked, to smooth them out (tool of choice: human thumb dipped in human saliva) but this wasn't possible as the stuff was still too gooey.   Fingers crossed.

Oh. And we now have a legal bathroom.