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, August 18, 2013

Halting progress spawns new plan

Finally, a workable strategy for the dashboard repaint project:

I have decided to settle about midway on a continuum between perfect and good enough -- let's call it "the best I can do."

Instead of removing all the old paint and underlying gelcoat and filling every tiny little crack, I am sanding the whole surface very aggressively. I have begun with 60-grit sandpaper and my plan is to work down to a very smooth 120-grit sanded surface. All the dings, holes and cracks are being filled, as I work toward the best paintable surface I can achieve.

Life's too short to obsess about perfection.




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