the old dive tanks and propane bottle

and the sand blasting and beautifying continues... now it is the turn of the dive tanks and even the old propane bottle!!! notice the final color.... any resemblance with the same blue color of the hull???? I assure you is not a coincidence...

Pupi, thank you very much for the sail, as you can see we use everything, Ok maybe not up in the mast or hoisted to the fore stay, but it sure was helpful to serve as cover for the paint!! Muchas gracias!!!

hatches

after realizing that the new cast aluminium hatches were around 1200 US dollars each, the old hatches were also sand blasted, then painted silver, we changed the lexan and then installed. they look brand new and for less than 200 a piece, not bad, ah?!

sand man

Esteban decided to sand blast everything he could. The hatches, the dive tanks, the anchor and just about every piece he could beautify. our old pieces look brand new now... He created quite the beach at austral marina with soooo much sand...., but thankfully we cleaned afterwards and no one noticed!!

ports

quite the project..... not only we removed the old ports, one of which ended up in Ilana's little doll house (creo que esto solo lo entiende la familia y todos los que conocen la finca!!) but we also had to change all the wood inside which turned out to be rotten.

After the new wood was in place Esteban enlarged the wholes and he installed all new 5 ports which bring more light into the boat and change the look completely!!