Pretty interesting day yesterday. We were kind of out of funds to keep on building until next month, but yesterday the project received a huge blessing! Costa Rica used to have strict laws not allowing salvage recovery until last month. You used to not be able to collect boats that you found offshore, but now with the new law, anything you find abandoned in the ocean is yours as long as you let the costa guard know what you found before they find you. It looks like I’m going to be the first person to take advantage of that law! Yesterday I got a phone call from one of my captains that there was an unclaimed 32 foot panga out there, waiting to fund the rest of my build
So yesterday, me and harold took my other 28 foot diesel Panga and set out in search of funds! it was a terrible pull, took about 10 hours at 1 knot, but we made it. Talk about a long day, with the new law in effect, it was the first person to throw a rope on it and call the coast guard, so I set out at redline and missed breakfast and forgot to bring even water, so it was a tough day, but looks like it was worth it. A boat like this here will fetch between 10 to 18K, and with that I get can my new boat finished! Here’s some pictures when we got it to the shop, and this morning when we got it flipped over. I have some buyers coming by tomorrow so with any luck
And with the salvage operation out of the way, we started again on the build. Here’s the assembled overhead electronics box. I’m taking a long lunch today to make up for starving yesterday, and this afternoon I’ll probably get the outside glassed, right now only the inside has glass.
And then harold and the homeless guy (whose name is crab) started sanding some more. The sanding is coming a long way, I think we will gelcoat next week.
Here’s a close up of the border, the fairing isn’t too thick, it’s just mostly a weave fill. I’m excited how it’s all coming along!
