Hello all, and welcome to The Salty Sailor. I'm not actually a Salty Sailor, although I have been known to talk like one. I started this blog to chronicle the rebirth of my Sabot Sailboat designed by my grandfather and built by my pops. More than likely this will be a short blog life as it won't take long to fix up the Sabot. However if I end up enjoying this form of talking to nobody and everybody I may continue and bore you all with the future misadventures of my life. I guess I'll cross that bridge when we get there. No promises.
So today in the adventures of The Salty Sailor I was finally able to convince my pops to let me fix up the sabot. I pulled out all the rotted wood and cleaned her up. Sounds easy when you read it but it wasn't. It took all afternoon and there were all kinds of nasty bugs living in the rotted wood, YUCK!!! I had the pleasure of having a centipede crawl up my bare leg and the joy of catching two rolly polly bugs doing the nasty. Hey at least someone's getting some action right?
Anyway, all the trashed wood is gone and the boat has been washed. Tomorrow I'll put some wax on it we'll move on from there. Here are some pictures of the sabot before I started and during the process.
The sabot before.
All the rotten wood.
The caboose.
Digging all the rotten wood out.
Harley on bug patrol.
That slot was full of rotten wood and BUGS!
Happy Harley
Harley helping clean up the rotten wood.
