by Mike Beemer | Nov 28, 2020 | King's Pride
King’s Pride Home | To Do List | Expenditures | Blog King’s Pride Refit Blog November Update Turning the corner, we hope. It’s been a long couple of months since we started taking apart King’s Pride. So far, not too many surprises. One job we hadn’t...
by Mike Beemer | Nov 18, 2020 | King's Pride
King’s Pride Home | To Do List | Expenditures | Blog King’s Pride Refit Blog Shrink Wrap Rain, and more rain mixed with wind. After removing the mast we realized that we had more deck hardware to remove (all of it) and that the weather was cooling...
by Mike Beemer | Oct 23, 2020 | King's Pride
King’s Pride Home | To Do List | Expenditures | Blog King’s Pride Refit Blog Removing the mast This was a big project – we needed to remove the mast. As you know, we didn’t do a survey , and it was hard to predict what condition the rig...
by Mike Beemer | Oct 22, 2020 | King's Pride
King’s Pride Home | To Do List | Expenditures | Blog King’s Pride Refit Blog Rudder, Part 2: Looking good We didn’t know the construction of the rudder, and no information was available, so we drilled the first 2” hole, to have a look. The rudder was...
by Mike Beemer | Oct 15, 2020 | King's Pride
King’s Pride Home | To Do List | Expenditures | Blog King’s Pride Refit Blog Fuel Tanks, Part 2 We decided to do as much of the take apart as we could. This Fall has been a lot of demolition. The goal, with most refits, it to get everything out of...
by Mike Beemer | Oct 8, 2020 | King's Pride
King’s Pride Home | To Do List | Expenditures | Blog King’s Pride Refit Blog Fuel Tank removal Jennifer had reported the aft fuel tank leaking and the forward one contaminated – that’s why we did the delivery on a small 1 gallon can that had to be...