yeap, out of the water a second time. Unfortunately two of the thru-hulls disintegrated!!! turns out this is not that common but it is also something that can happen some times. whenever there is a fault ground from the dock or when there is an electricity leak from other boats galvanic corrosion may occur and so it happened to us. Our thru-hulls failed and we had a lot water coming to the boat!!! luckily this happened while still in the dock and not crossing the gulf stream. So to play it on the safe side we hauled out the boat out again and replaced all the thru-hulls plus we took advantage of the opportunity and we installed a new refrigerator system and a plate to serve as ground for the single side band radio antenna.
We also painted the bottom again. Not that it needed it but we had left overs from the first time we painted and we already had the boat out, so we did it. all this work was done in just two days, of course they were truly almost 24 hours of work each time.
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