Hello everyone , it’s been a while but dad and I had a bit of a day out yesterday, it started early with Rob Gheller doing a service on dads mower down at the block ,
I sprayed a bit of poison around on the bits that I missed last week , while he did it before we both jumped in the ute and then we headed down to the boatyard at Yarringa to meet Blacks and have some lunch .
Really it was a bit hot and dad seemed to walk the fifty metres from the office to Blacks’s yacht without too much trouble.
We cooked up a feed of King George whiting first then some great burgers topped up with a beer and surely we are living the Aussie dream.
I do realise that dad is getting so much more slower and slower but his lack of stamina and endurance became obvious when we went to walk to the rear of the boatyard to have a look at the old green boat that I once owned .
Dad only made thirty metres from Blacky’s yacht and he was completely exhausted and we then found him a good place to sit and rest in the shade and told him to wait there and we would be back in five minutes.
So we went down to the Green Beret and Blackie told me that he thinks that she is destined to be cut up and thrown on the scrap heap ,
I thought what a shame as it’s such a solid vessel .
We wandered back towards dad and I snapped off a couple of quick pics on the way to point out the different types of anti foul that are available and in use .
Firstly any vessel being yachts, powerboats , working boats , ships , barges etc that are submerged in the water for any length of time and irrespective of their construction material will require to be coated with an anti foul paint to hold off the growth of weed algae and barnicals on the boats hull. and osmosis type of damage to the hull from constant submersion .
There is two main types of anti foul and it’s usually applied with a roller or brush as it’s fairly thick .
So with the blue hull in the pic in theory of the coatings application you use an undercoat first before applying multi layers of anti foul you can even use different colours as that way on visual inspection later in the water you can physically see just how thick that your coat of anti foul is that’s left.
The life expectancy is around four years before you have to slip your boat on to dry dock to re apply it.
It comes in a multitude of colours.
The photo of the second hull which has a copper colour anti foul and that’s because that is exactly what it is , copper ladened anti foul with the advantage of being a lot more weed , algae and barnical resistant as their growth on the copper is greatly inhibited,
The life expectancy of a copper anti foul is around ten years .
But when you look around the boatyard not many boat owners have used copper as it is so much more $ expensive.
So when we got back to where dad was I said Blacks we have a problem as he wasn’t there , so we headed for the Nakina , Blacks’s yacht , and dad re appeared from behind a skip bin ,
Hmm maybe nature called .
So another stubbie and enjoy a bit more of our time before the trip home .
It made me think the difference in dad from our trip to the long jetty not so long ago when dad walked the whole 800 metres , to now , unfortunately that’s the way it goes getting old it sux but it’s nature .
Something funny as dad is sleeping a lot more now mum said to me that she doesn’t like it when he falls asleep at the table with a coffee still in front of him , or standing.
See my dad has a special talent that he has had ever since I can remember and that is he would come home and say walk into the lounge , lean on the mantle and fall asleep standing up , it’s pretty unusual but he still does it sometimes now ,
I don’t recall him ever falling over whilst doing this , but at his age now it’s definitely more of a worry .
I think it’s mums turn for the spotlight this weekend as it’s her 80th birthday on the 11th ,
Hmm
I would have sworn she was 65 .
Cheers