Continued Renos for Fortuitous, June 21st

As we continue down the reno road, more work seems to materialize. Ralph and I are both gettng tired, but we can't possibly leave Fortuitous in the shape she's in, right now, and go home. So, we are staying on awhile to see most of the work through. We are extremely happy with the work, but it is also a lot of work for us too. The mess is incredible, and we need time to get Fortuitous cleaned up once the dust settles...literally!!

This is our main salon as we see it every day. It doesn't do it justice as you can't really see all the dust and dirt. Worse yet, we have overspray on our beautiful teak and holly floor. I've sanded it and will try to re-varnish it before we leave here.

Another shot of the salon.

This is my galley, I think??

Tuty has been working hard and these are the first of the headline panels in place in the V-berth. We have still to sand the old boards in the hatch, one of the new trim boards is in temporarily.

This is a shot of our newly painted hull ports. This is the right colour as opposed to the first colour which was rust.

Our carpenter, Tuty, is very exacting. we have an air conditioner that we are installing in the companionway for while we are back in Canada. Hopefully that will keep down the mold and mildew. We needed a couple of steps to get in and over it. He built these...note the curvy side supports. Not really necessary for throw-away steps, but he's an artist.

More varnishing for yours truly. These are the cockpit seat edges and the companionway hatch pull.

Aft ports, newly painted.

We did take an afternoon to go and have some lunch in Old Town. This young lady was sitting selling her coconuts on the corner outside our cafe. What a long day for the little one!

This is the cafe. Lunch of soup, main course of fish, rice, beans and salad and a banana for dessert cost us $3.00

This is what is left of the whole fried fish we each had. It wasn't bad.