Great Happenings!

Wow! Progress today.
Finally, the 'glass' men arrived to install the Eisenglas on the fly-deck. They were supposed to come on Friday, then Monday, then yesterday, and today, they arrived just after 9am.
I am either getting super picky, of there is a distinct lack of respect from the various boat workers who arrive with footwear on that marks the decking. Black soled shoes are a nono on a boat...they leave black marks. It is good etiquette to take your shoes off on the dock and come aboard a boat in bare feet.
These fellas, just like the detailers, came aboard wearing their shoes and with lovely new shiny decking and white areas, I was not happy with the nasty marks left. I did ask that they take them off, and I did point out that I didnt want dirty marks all over the nice clean white surfaces as we had just detailed. They put cloths down and one man had socks on, but they still stood on the railings (I talked about them recently as not being a place to put a 150-180lb man...especially those railings that are at an angle (not 90 degrees off the deck) to install the 'glass'.

You can see the shine on the radar arch!!

 'window' rolled up.

The troublesome front panel on the right. They resewed the zipper to make the two front panels join.

 

 

They had taken the Bimini away before we arrived in Houston, to get new zippers sewn onto it for the glass, and when we arrived at the boat a month ago, the insideof the Bimini was filthy...dirty foot and hand marks. It still is! It looks like they might have laid it on the floor of the workroom and then walked all over it. I'm not happy about that and will have ANOTHER chat with them to get it cleaned off.
For the most part the installation (of the glass forward of the Radar Arch) went according to plan, but when they came to zipper up the middle of the front, they were almost an inch apart. No amount of rearranging would make the two parts come together, so the boss man was called, duly arrived and they whole front section was taken away for some alterations. In the meantime, one of the others was installing the rest of the sections and attaching the toggles to keep it in place around the bottom. This took a lot longer than we anticipated.
By 1pm, they left with the promise to return tomorrow morning, bright and early to take measurements and make templates for the rear section of the Fly-deck.  This will make 2/3 of the fly deck covered from the worst of the wet weather, when it arrives.
We have had fly screens made for the window openings, as we want to sit up there in mosquito country, with the windows rolled up.

I took 4 of the curtains down this morning and put them in the washer. I somehow doubt these have been washed once in the 14 yrs of the boat's life. The stains didnt come out, but never mind. I cannot find a fabric I want to replace them with, yet, so will put up with them for now.

They do look a slightly lighter color, thank goodness. I need to unpick the bottoms and rehem them to make them a little shorter when hung. Right now they dont hang without drooping.

 

I went to JoAnn's again this afternoon to look for some more fabric for another curtain project. I found it and also some bits and bobs to complete the revamp of the light shades for the forward cabin...this is one clean one and one dirty shade before I do anything else to them...clean on the right.

They also probably hadnt been cleaned in 14 yrs!

I have now stripped them both down...lots of GooGone was used, I might add, and they look almost good as new.  I will post results when finished!

 

 

Time to turn out the lights again. A busy morning tomorrow, and I have more 'projects' to complete. I cant wait to get the sewing machine out and working...highly motivated!! And...Waz says I can use the floral Sunbrella fabric for a cover for one of his electronic pieces:)
Night Night.