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Written by Royal Polaris Office
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Sunday, 11 May 2008 10:24 |
Hi Folks,
Saturday was a very busy day. We gave Roy and Billy the weekend off
but the rest of the crew, plus 5 other guys that have worked with us
in the past, were hard at work.
Tom Dale (mechanic,) Greg Hibbs (electrician,) and a helper were busy
hooking up two of the gear boxes to the outboard mains and will go in
the boat. The center gear box and center engine is already in the
boat and will be hooked up also. Gear boxes where painted white to
match the new engines.
Big D and four other men completed sanding on hull, then sandblasted
where necessary, cleaned bare aluminum with Alodyne and Aluma-prep and
then applied two coats of Strontium. That crew did not finish until
midnight.
Jesus, Anthony, Cole, Eddie and Aaron spent the entire day cleaning in
the engine room. First scraping and scrubbing with solvent and then
cleaning with big O. The same five guys will repeat the whole
procedure on Sunday so that everything will be spotless.
So far, this crew in the engine room has used:
15 gallons of solvent
140 pounds of rags
Lots of gloves and stainless steel scrubbers.
It is a nasty job.
We are slightly ahead of schedule.
Monday the auxiliary engines will go into the boat.
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