About Ms Bettencourt

Ms Bettencourt is a Swedish built 25-foot trailerable trawler. Her hull was completed in 1971, No. 1117 of about 2500 built. The boat is named for my wife Dia, whose maiden name is Bettencourt.

This little vessel came to me as a gift in 2004. Before then she had been abandoned about 12 years on the Savannah River near Augusta, GA. I have repaired and refitted the boat extensively, and I have cruised her along the East coast of the US, from Cape Lookout, NC, to the Florida Keys. I dream of taking her to Havana some day.

This blog started in 2011 to chronicle the building of a hard top for the boat to replace leaky canvas. Since then the blog has become an Albin-25 boatkeeping and cruising journal.


Sunday, September 15, 2013

A cloud of dust...

... and not much more.  A good paint job requires meticulous surface preparation. In Ms. Bettencourt's case, hours and hours of sanding, patching and filling must happen before the top comes off the first can of primer.

We're in the midst of an arid sanding williwaw in the middle cabin. Dust is everywhere. Vacuum cleaner filters are cleaned twice daily, and still it piles up. Particle mask filters are replaced frequently, and still we taste the stuff.

Resolve is diminishing only slightly. We're pressing on. The next report might contain pictures of painted surfaces.

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