Baby it's cold outside

While the spring weather continues to oscillate between almost mild and freezing cold, Seascape remains in the shed in  Universal with the heat lamps on her trying to wick out the damp in her bones ready for Coppercoating which requires a low level of humidity and mild temperatures to properly cure. So after a number of weeks of playing cook it, measure it, cook it again the moisture is coming out of most places except for the engine bearers and a bulkhead in the heads. Inside the boat is a heater and dehumidifier which is moved around and can so times fill up the extracted water to a point where it safely cuts out overnight. The bilges were also emptied to the point of using some nappies to extract the last drops.

Bottom warmer

Each blue spot on the hull is a piece of masking tape labelled with the moisture readings which are taken by a hand held meter with range set to GRP this device measures levels of moisture into the hull and can reach in a few cm to spot issues such as Chains in lockers! Bilge water in keel Mooring legs and water tanks Propellers in lockers   Nuff said! Next time I need to remove these items before measuring spurious results

Rudder always moist but epoxied and faired