A Beehive of Activity

Service Manager Marc and Technician Scott in the aft locker

Bottom Painting Underway

Originally Posted at www.svsweetescape.com

If you have ever had a house built or participated in any major building project you know that contractors are like everyone else - they tend to procrastinate.  They seem to enjoy flirting with deadlines until the last minute and then all hell breaks loose and there is a beehive of activity and the project is completed at the deadline.

So it has been with Sweet Escape.  She was hauled at Racine Riverside on the 13th and the boat sat for almost two weeks before much of anything was done.  We had set a deadline of July 1st to have the boat back in the water so in order to meet that deadline Riverside has kicked up the activity level the past week.

Today, Tuesday we arrived at the boat at 2:00 P.M. to find Technician Scott aboard installing the new chartplotter, wiring our WiFi device and installing a cockpit stereo we are adding.  Painter Mike was busy adding the third coat of epoxy barrier coat after having removed the old bottom.  There will be one additional coat of the epoxy and then three coats of bottom paint will be applied.

Service Manager Marc Elsmo tells us that our batteries are in and will be installed in the next couple of days.  Technician Ryan will also complete our dripless shaft seal and replace a leaking seal in the transmission cooler along with the offending fuel solenoid.

We expect the boat to be back floating by Tuesday of next week.