Nighthawk
I March 2012 Haul out
March 11 - 16, 2012 BackHome
On Sunday, March 11, 2012, Suzette
and I started NH-1 after winter layup at Calvert Marina, and moved her
to Spring Cove Marina. After a quick preflight, engines started easily,
without much smoke. We cleared our lines and fenders at the Calvert
Marina shed, and moved 0.3 NM over to a T head pier at Spring Cove and
tied up for the evening. Monday afternoon, Walt and Chris moved the
boat to the travel all well and the crew at Spring Cove lifted her
out, scraped the bottom, power washed and blocked her.
The weather was unseasonably good and
Walt and crew began work on Tuesday. They sanded the bottom, applied
two coats of Micron Interlux CSC, cleaned and painted the running gear,
replaced the zincs, and waxed the hull. Walt also repaired the chronic
leak we had coming from the fly bridge and leaking water into the stbd
salon valence.
NH-1 was ready to splash on Friday
afternoon. Boat went in, started fine. Suzette and I took her out to
the lower Patuxent River. We made some speed runs to get baseline
RPM/speed and engines readings with a clean hull and running gear. We
checked the anchor, radios and navigation gear. Everything worked fine.
We recovered at Jim's dock in
Town Creek and saw the first osprey of the season as we motored in.
Will do some additional waxing and
cleaning over the next two weeks and should be ready by April 1. Great tot get a head start on the season.
