Jammin Jane Travels: Really?? The boat needs work?

If it smells I won't clean it, So Ben got this for me!

Anyone who has owned, owns, wants to own a boat will find out that boat fun and boat work go hand and hand. Owning Jammin Jane since 2011, we have encountered many boat jobs both massive and minor. While I have been involved in some of the work in the past, it was frequent, making it difficult to see and work on a task from beginning to end. Let's also mention here, since I am not at all uncomfortable talking about my flaws, I am technically unskilled at most jobs so I need to be directed and checked on, which can take up a lot of time. Especially since we were working at the time and only had weekends to work on the boat.
Well, things certainly have changed since then. Now that we are not working, we rented a place near the boat yard and treated it as our 'new job'. I'm not going exaggerate that we clocked in 8 hours every day but we were there everyday for 6 weeks (give or take a few trips home and a couple sick days) including weekends. I became Ben's apprentice, learning the steps to the wonderful world of varnish (since my husband has a love affair with varnish, I'll dedicate a post to that later), painting, deck work, sea cocks, impellars, and just a few of the dirty jobs reserved just for the apprentice! Hehehe!
Up until this year, I could not say that I physically touched every part of our boat. I can say that now, and for those of you who can say the same understand when I say that I feel a different connection to the boat. It's pretty surreal to think, but this is going to be our home for a long time. We will be relying on her to get us to our next destination. Any extra knowledge I have under my belt makes us a safer boat. So, understanding things and maintaining our boat the way we (mostly Ben) have since 2011 will keep our 1979 beauty not only looking like she's new, but she will be in tip top shape to get us there safely.

I will be posting about all the work we have done to Jammin Jane since purchase.

Here's a look at the work this past year...

leveling the chaulk

Ben reefed out the old seems and is filling a seem with a chaulk (SIS 440) from Teak Deck Systems

Ben has done extensive repairs (re-plugging, sanding, re-seaming) to the deck, they were in bad shape when we bought the boat.
Here's a peek from the past...

I cleaned all windows (ewww!) with bleach/water. One of the flaws on older GBs is the felt track.

Ahh! Clean & opens like butter!

We painted all interior rooms (aft stateroom and head and forward birth and head). I became great at prepping for projects. I actually started to enjoy taping.