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Posting one image of each day in the process. Each 'day' consists of driving an hour each way to get to the boat, attempt to thaw the boat when I get there, and getting four to five hours of actual work time each Day. Today's weather is typical but a little warmer than usual. Check out the gusts. It was rockin' the boat on the trailer.
Site M/A Day Time Sky Conditions VIS Weather Temp DP Wind(kt) Alt RH Chill Peak


WHMA2 AP 04 1219 SKC 10 24 11 23032 016 57% 5 57
WHMA2 AA 04 1249 SKC 10 22 12 23036 015 65% 2 55
WHMA2 AP 04 1319 SKC 10 26 12 23030 014 55% 8 53
WHMA2 AA 04 1349 SKC 10 25 11 23032 012 55% 7 52
WHMA2 AP 04 1419 SKC 10 26 11 24033 012 52% 8 56
WHMA2 AA 04 1449 SKC 10 27 11 23025 012 50% 11 62
WHMA2 AP 04 1519 SKC 10 27 10 24028 011 48% 10 62
WHMA2 AA 04 1549 SKC 10 26 11 24022 010 52% 11 57
WHMA2 AP 04 1619 SKC 10 27 9 23024 009 46% 11 57

Day 5 - For some reason I could only post 3 images when the topic was started. You can't tell from the picture, but the wind is screaming. It has actually blown all the snow away.

I take it you've sounded the stringers and bulkhead? Moisture readings would help too.

I pounded on them, and found no softness anywhere. Everything appears solid. Unfortunatley, moisture readings ain't gonna happen this year.

Love that you are taking on such a huge challenge. Know that you are in the REAL great white north, but indoor, or indoor and heated storage are not an option? With the amount of money you are about to spend and work you are about to do, getting the boat in to an environment more conducive to that has to be possible. The results of some of what you are looking to do is very temperature dependent... Work done under the wrong conditions tends to lead to re-work...

Regardless of what I say above... GOOD LUCK! If I am ever in Alaska, I want to see it!

Problematic as the temperature and weather is, it's still doable by heating just the areas where I'm working. There is one structure in Whittier that I could rent. It is a quonset stlye tent set atop 40' conex's on 3 sides. When I painted the Instant Fun four years ago, it rented for $2k/month and it cost almost another $2/k for diesel to heat it with space heaters. Also, it would put me in more of a rush than I want to be in.

Sheesh, good for you, I thought it was miserable working in covered boat at 50 degrees...good luck with your project...Mike

Amazing challenge!

Good luck with your project and keep posting!

It was 30 degrees and windy in Delaware today!
Ok You Win!
It's been so long since I've had to haul all my tools and drive 1hr to the marina to work on the boat outside in the winter that I just realized how much I have been taking my current situation for granted.
It looks like your really making some progress. What are you repowering with? keeps this pics coming !
Good Luck!

Yanmar 6BY3-260's. Sorry, that was in a different thread.

Thanks, figured I had missed it somewhere.
By the way,I love your hull color! I really wanted to go with something that dark but I got scared. I didn't have enough faith in my fiberglass "prep ability" at the time. You boat looks great!
I can only imagine how beautiful it must be to cruise Alaska, please feel free to keep posting pictures after the repower so I can be even more jealous than I already am!
Good luck and stay warm!

Nice work. Keep the progress pics coming. We love them. What is the temp there? It was -2 here with out windchill. But you won't catch me out there.

hello i was wondering if you had any side profile pictures of you boat instant fun it looks like you have the fly bridge off I have been looking for a pic of a f36 with the bridge removed for a long time i want to remove mine but i am do not know how the lines would look

Looks kinda cool w/o the flying bridge, but I love the upstairs on a pretty day.

thank you very much i just started a new post to see what kind of pic there out there. you boat looks just like my dream boat i want to paint my hull so bad a dark blue like that great looking boat i am looking foward to see the progress of her