05_28_2003

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05_28_2003

Restoration

May 28, 2003

 

Someone can't color inside the lines...
Zzzzzzip!

Unmasking Cherokee’s Red Boot Top


Darn! A hole in the boat!

Surprise!


Your Name Here

Full Stern View with Swim Platform

Is that a mermaid below at Weeki Wachi Springs reaching for her air tube? No, it’s Jeanette, finishing up the ceiling in the master stateroom. The master head floor has been fitted as well, depicted below right.

Age of Aquarius, Age of Aquarius...
Floored

Master Stateroom Activities

Steve Gilpin, the most sought-after boat electrician in Carteret County, is experiencing the joy of joy-stick installation with the steering system. After running nearly twenty-seven million miles of wire in the Cherokee (I think that’s what he said) and making the last one hundred and eighty connections to the joy stick’s black box (brain), the system is almost ready to be tested. This control system is provided to Rolls Royce by Vector controls.


When I push this lever they give me a banana!

Steve Gilpin Doing his Thing

That crazy paint crew just won’t quit! The boot stripe was barely dry before they commenced to sand and prime the topside, turning the bow area into a big white wedding cake with a dog on top. Within the next couple of days they will apply the white topcoat to the cabin sides.

Prime priming
Wog doggin'

A Sanded and Primed Forward Top

All the book shelves and port lights are in. Below is the book shelf in the guest room, smiling with a big wooden mouth and gleaming port light eyes.


Hi! I'm Square-Face Cabin Bob!

Guest Room Book Shelf

There might be only one fish factory left in North Carolina, and a handful in Virginia and along the Gulf Coast, but Peru is rotten with them! Peru is the world’s biggest producer and exporter of fish meal and oil, far outstripping Chile, Denmark, Norway, and Iceland. Where does most of that stinky stuff go? To China, where it’s used in feed for pond-raised shrimp and carnivorous fish. Although most fishmeal and oil is fed to chickens, cows, and pigs, the fastest growing sector is the aquaculture industry – fish eating fish with the help of a few middlemen! So much for the theory that aquaculture will make “wild” fishing obsolete. But when the “El Nino” weather pattern takes hold, the Peruvian anchoveta becomes scarce and the global fishmeal market is thrown off-kilter. How do the fishermen deal with these boom and bust patterns? Are Peruvian boats typically named after women like here in the U.S. of A? Is the smell of anchovy the smell of dinero? Inquiring minds must know – FishDoc, hijo, and amiga are headed for Peru this summer to see (and smell) for themselves. !Viva Pescado! Signing off for now, Barbara “Fish Doctor” Blake

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