Day 132 - 2/25 Getting itchy again, Inverter battery. (6 hours)

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Deck

Itchy again.  started first step to prepare deck for repaint.

Step1. sand all flaking old paint, voids in gelcoat and gelcoat damaged areas. 

Found two hatches on cockpit lockers are damaged around hinge points so hard that i need to redo these areas.

All grey dots was gelcoat voids different sizes, now I need to patch them, some of them must be re-glassed. Also find two places with minor structural issues in laminate, One place loos like somebody hit deck with axe.

Found sealant patched drilled hole in the left bottom carner of the external companion way "step". Why somebody did it I probably will not figure out. (same mystery like hole in the water tank).
Two axe hits (big and small) grounded out.
Port side aft cockpit  wall corner some de-lamination, but likely just very "voidy" build. I will need to dig deeper before start to rebuild this area.

Electrical 

Cabling

Get all wiring ordered, connected antenna cables together using N type connectors.  Ready to close headliner.

VHF

Testing antenna with handheld VHF. Signal is much better with on the mast antenna. Unfortunately no check radio service in Austin. (at least I did not find it).

Inverter power

Adding "booster" (additional 67Ah) next to my 268 Ah main inverter battery.

Small wire - power to smart monitor on the battery.

Still need to figure out how to fix batteries in the locker.



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