Sunday, 12 October 2025

Panama - Linton Bay, Painting bubbling Aluminium

We are still on the hard at Linton Bay Marina in Panama.

Nicholas noticed some paint bubbling on aluminum parts, and so Nicholas and Marco uninstalled the two helms to take the cone housings off, and disassembled the boom strut to remove the fitting where the boom strut attaches to the mast.

Marco sanded all the items as well as areas on the mast.

Then Nicholas spray painted 3 coats of primer and two of top coat.

Marco mixing paint

Undercoat being sprayed on

Mast being sprayed

Re-assembled and all looks great





Yard dogs, Riley and Kayley, our loyal guard dogs, that we help feed and look after




Panama - LBM yet another month on the hard, and a visa run to Costa Rica, stuff happens

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