Christmas boat & maintenance

15th November 2022

I had a phone call from the marina asking me to come down to discuss something. Initially that worried me as I thought there must be something wrong with Liza. They assured me there wasn't and when I got there the marina operations director asked if they could use Liza as the 'Christmas boat'. So… 





21st November 2022

Liza was lifted out of the water 1 week later!

I had been intending lifting her to do bi-annual maintenance in the spring, so that was brought forward.

There was very little growth on the hull. A little on the bottom of the keels but for two years in the water I was very pleased with how little there was. Probably because I sail her a lot so there is regular water movement. 





Then she was moved round to the entrance to the new marina village where there are sheds with food and other shops and a large Christmas tree in the middle. Apparently having a lit up Christmas boat is a Greek island tradition and this was to be started now in Cyprus in Larnaka.



Although the AquaStop worked well on the hull, the keels weren't so good, so we… well, Lukas… ground them down to metal and we tried a new epoxy layer to see if that worked better.

Then we painted a first layer of anti-fouling and painted topsides (the deck) with a two part polyurethane… 


25th November 2022

And she's ready to become the Christmas boat!


10th December 2022

Then they added some extra strings of lights to look like the sail. They really need to be brighter but looked good nevertheless.


4th January 2023

After Christmast it was time to finish the final maintenance work. The topsides/deck looked so good I decided that we should paint the hull as well. 









Katie and Helen did the painting.














6th January 2023

New name labels and she's looking really smart!





9th January 2023

The crane to pick her up and put her in the water. Sunshine in Cyprus.


You can just see the hatch covers that need painting… and there are new cushions being made for the cockpit!


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