September & October on the boat

Hello everyone!! its been ages since I've posted, I've been meaning to but just never gotten to it. How time flies. 

So, Dan & Cassidy spent most of September and part of October on the boat...lucky them!
We (the collective clan) didn't get out to the boat this summer...oh I was also told it's not a boat, it's a ship...which technically its a super yacht because of how long it is...it's a gigantically huge sailboat, but that sounds far to pretentious for my crew! Bigger than necessary but 🤷🏼‍♀️ if it makes the guy happy, I'm happy 😆 but also it's awkward to call it a ship so whenever I say boat, just assume I mean ship. 😁⛵

Anywho, as Xavier, John & I flew north for Xavier's senior year of high school (how are they this old already?!), Dan & Cassidy drove cross-country to the boat. 

Because I wasn't there we are limited on pictures but there were seals and seagulls (that we don't like because they are messy birds that are very hard to deter), and pelicans! 
They had to pressure wash the deck because said seagulls thought it was a toilet 🤢 and got a motion sensor water sprayer to deter them. It works from what I'm told. It also shot Cassidy 😆.

They still settle on the masts, Cassidy put bamboo above the mast to make it harder and they eventually learned how to perch on a bamboo stick! Ugh! 

So they went out there this fall because the marina was supposed to be dredged in September so the boat would have to be temporarily relocated so someone has to be there to move said large boat/ship.

Needless to say the dredging was delayed and they just started yesterday, 10 days into October. The barge that holds the excavator is named "Horton".

Dan figured out his phone can do accelerated videos so for your viewing pleasure, dredging progress!  
Marina Dredging this video is long
Marina Dredging this video is short

There might have also been a bit of an incident with the harbor boats 🤭 they hit the waterline. oops!

Meanwhile, on the boat, last summer Cassidy & Xavier built a vertical CNC machine to cut boards to finish parts of the boat...once the boat is actually to that point but that's for the future...Dan hooked it up to AutoCAD on the laptop and tried it out with much success! yay! so he cut boards to wrap the metal beams in the galley. 
In a previous post from 2 summers ago the boys put up white paneling in the galley ceiling but we didn't get to finishing the beams themselves. I have videos that I haven't posted of that process too so at some point I'll get those up...maybe...

So Dan measured everything, drew it up in AutoCAD, had the CNC machine cut a board, put it up, it looked good over the phone so it got my approval 😀 and then they could just stack all the boards up and let it do its thing. It cut 32 boards while Dan was working & Cassidy was schooling. 




Dan took the scraps of the boards and built a counter in the galley so that was a cool use of leftovers, no waste here! 




He also built a little square table that looks pretty good IMO. It is the cover to the skeg hydraulics I'm told.

 
So very exciting stuff. Can't wait to actually get to the boat myself.
 



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