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.


Tuesday, July 15, 2014

Moving along

My friend Paul came down to the warehouse with me yesterday morning to help haul Ms. Bettencourt out on the pad for a scrub down.


A lot of sanding dust came off in the wash. Next, I'll be masking the window gaskets, rub rail and assorted fittings in preparation for spot priming.

The boat looks kind of strange to me without its teak cabin top rails, anchor platform and forward railings.



Paul Creighton photos
Also on the list of stuff to do is touching up various scrapes and dings on the hull. That big scrape is from running over a wing dam downstream last April. The only damage was paint removal. The hull is 8 mm thick in this area. The gelcoat under the antifouling paint was hardly scratched.



(You can click on a photo to see more detail).


The weather forecast is for some (relatively) cool weather over the next few days. I hope to get a lot done during that period.


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