Wednesday, February 28, 2018

February 2018 | MONTH IN REVIEW


Here's a quick summary of what we were up to this month.

  • I'm still playing catch up with our posts! {two months behind} 😀. It's kinda hard to write a blog with a full time job. The last thing I feel like doing at the end of the day is.. sit in front of the computer again. So I try to work on it on weekends but it's funny how weekends fly by so quickly.. four weekends go by and {poof} it's a(nother) month!
  • Chinese New Year fell on the 16th, just 2 days after Valentine's day! We bid farewell to the year of the Rooster 🐔, and welcomed the year of the Dog 🐶!
  • Grateful to be home this year. One of the things I enjoy most about Chinese New Year other than the family getting together, is the cooking and eating of Chai, a vegetarian dish made with napa/chinese cabbage, beancurd, ginko nuts, black fungus, different types of mushrooms, etc. We make this every year! My grandma's recipe is the BEST! It's really delicious and very healthy too! 
  • On the other side of the world, Alex has been busy with more boat projects.  
  • He re-sealed the hatches in the saloon, sanded and grinded more of the bow, repaired the section where the trampoline meets the deck and worked on the hawse pipe. Scroll down to see photos below.
  • On the entertainment front, while Alex was watching The X-Files (Season 1-5), I was busy watching 3rd Rock from the Sun (Season 4-6), The Heirs (Korean TV series) and Doctors (another Korean TV series). I figured, now that I'm back in Asia, I might as well jump onto the Korean drama bandwagon! 😄 

Check out our posts this month:

Re-sealing the Saloon Hatches




Re-sealed the hatches in the saloon
After sanding the 2 access holes, Alex applied epoxy bog - read our January post
Sanded, grinded and repaired the section where the trampoline meets the deck
Repairs on the hawse pipe
Mum's famous mouth-watering crispy crackling pork belly
Yee Sang/Yusheng - only available during Chinese New Year, another favourite of mine
And of course here are the ingredients for the Chai dish I love 😋


Till next month. Thank you for reading!


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Tuesday, February 20, 2018

Re-sealing the Saloon Hatches

Here are some photos when Alex re-sealed the hatches in the saloon. 

The hatch removed (view from inside)
The hatch removed (view from outside)
Balsa core
About a centimeter of balse core removed all around
Plastic container taped to the ceiling to catch the balsa core
Sanded and filled the cavity with epoxy bog - to prevent water from leaking into the balsa core
He also epoxied a 3mm PVC board so that the hatch is raised and thus less likely for water to seep in
A close up of epoxy bog fill & PVC board
All sanded and ready for sikaflex
Old sikaflex cleaned from the hatch
The hatch is sikaflexed in
All done!

Note: Alex re-sealed the hatch on the port side in February and the one on the starboard side in May! Bit by bit.. we'll get there! 😎



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