Marc, Marlon, Leo, Mark, Raymond, Henri, Simon all helped to get 6 copper coats layers on port, 3 primer coats on the keel with 5 copper coat layers, 5 copper coat layers on starboard. It all got done in one day, the other side of the keel and the rudder together with the berth pads need to be finished in an other phase.
After 78 hours of work, Marlon, Leo, June and friends finished machine papering the hull using 80 grid. 3 orbital sandpapering machines were used together with two industrial vacum machines. One orbital sandmachine, one vaccuum cleaner and what power cable got destroyed in the operation. The hull is now ready for Copper Coat.
Irie was previously dry kept and therefore had no antifouling. The plan is to have her mored and kept in the water at all times, an antifouling is therefore required. The previous paint must be removed for the new antifouling to adhere. It's quite labor intensive and under 40C but with a nice sea breeze it's no joke.
The reefer container also gets a new split AC unit (Mitsubishi) which only requires a single phase and does not require the power cable to cross the road which makes things easy. The shelves are now also set at the right height.
