Thursday 1 September 2011

On the beach in Jacere,Brasil

Seen here after a bottom paint job,working through the tides in the river the HBYC yacht Dixi Roller is nearly ready to set off an back to Hout Bay after an 18 month visit to Brasil.


The boat is a steel Roberts 35 Spray,home built by Steve.


Steve waiting for the tide to rise,he may well be considering the rather long trip back to South Africa,two handed with his brasilian born wife Renata.They are looking for crew and leave quite soon.


Pictures are from Steve and Renata,many thanks!

While I have been here and painted the bottom of our Endurance 37 Ocean Cloud, I used another method and had Brian Stevens source some very heavy local timbers ( sinks in water) we then made a drying rig and we took our boat in at the high tide,painting was easy then and we did not have to lean over like Steves boat did.

R McB


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