Anyways, total is that a little more than the half of a 2.5l paint bucket was needed to paint the whole thing. Plus what's going to be needed when I put the boat in the water, like under the pads and the surface under the keel...
Was really thankful that inspite of using normal masking tape, no paint has made its way thru it and the tape came off nicely, after one day of staying on the hull.
Unfortunately I realized that my starter battery is dead. When I came on the boat it shows 8V, and after being connected to shore power for one day and disconnected for one night, it went back to 10V. The little health display also shows blank, so it must be time for a new one.
Today I finally took off the cockpit floor and put some grease/Vaseline to the stuffing box.
Unfortunately it turns out that there indeed isn't any manual bilge pump installed - i kept on hoping there was one hidden in the stuffing box compartment or under the wood construction for the auxiliary rudder in the aft cockpit... So a DIY project coming soon.
I also picked up and mounted an anode for the propeller shaft - 2.5cm diameter (1in?). Fun fact: zinc anodes are for salt water only, aluminum for both salt and fresh water. So I picked up an aluminum one. And I still don't have a clue how to take the old one at the end of the shaft off...
Still looking for a matching handrail replacement, seems to be a non-standard one on the Albin Vega (93cm with three connections as opposed to the closest on the market right now, 84cm with four connections).
Also, the old heater's furnace pipe is obsolete and I'd like to replace it with a ventilator, but the pipe is 6cm diameter and the smallest ventilators start at 7-8cm. Let's see what the internet offers there.
Anyways, time for some lekker hollandse dinner and head home..
