Alana's bottom got a good cleaning and inspection this morning. Scott Boyd, a former Coastie that now works for the fire department and dives part time, cleaned and inspected Alana's underwater body, cleaned off a small amount of growth, removed accumulated gunk from the through-hulls and replaced the propeller zinc. "Replaced" may not be the right word as there was no zinc to replace. "Installed" would be a better verb. I have apparently waited too long to get the divers into action and the zinc which mounts to the aft side of the propeller hub has completely dissolved. I hope no real damage to the propeller has resulted. I was happy to learn that the Micron Extra bottom paint is still holding up well after a year and a half. We have been hoping that new bottom paint can wait until Spring, and it looks like that is the case.
Jessica and I have been planning a short sailing trip next week, assuming that her job and looming hurricanes don't intervene, so it will be nice to know that a dirty bottom will not slow us down.
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