{"id":85,"date":"2006-03-05T04:31:03","date_gmt":"2006-03-05T04:31:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kosmos.liveflux.net\/blog\/2006\/03\/05\/boat-construction-update-4\/"},"modified":"2006-03-13T21:13:52","modified_gmt":"2006-03-13T21:13:52","slug":"boat-construction-update-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kosmos.liveflux.net\/blog\/2006\/03\/05\/boat-construction-update-4\/","title":{"rendered":"Boat Construction Update 4 &#8211; Boatyard and Bottoms"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"imagelink\" title=\"2006-03-04 17-21-10_0035_resize.JPG\" href=\"https:\/\/kosmos.liveflux.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/03\/2006-03-04%2017-21-10_0035_resize.JPG\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" id=\"image80\" height=\"96\" alt=\"2006-03-04 17-21-10_0035_resize.JPG\" src=\"https:\/\/kosmos.liveflux.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/03\/2006-03-04%2017-21-10_0035_resize.thumbnail.JPG\" width=\"128\" \/><\/a>\u00a0<a class=\"imagelink\" title=\"2006-03-04 17-23-12_0038_resize.JPG\" href=\"https:\/\/kosmos.liveflux.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/03\/2006-03-04%2017-23-12_0038_resize.JPG\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" id=\"image84\" height=\"96\" alt=\"2006-03-04 17-23-12_0038_resize.JPG\" src=\"https:\/\/kosmos.liveflux.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/03\/2006-03-04%2017-23-12_0038_resize.thumbnail.JPG\" width=\"128\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>If you stick something in the sea water it does not take too long for it to be covered in furry green marine growth.\u00a0 To reduce the growth special paint is applied to the bottom of boats.\u00a0Of course you need to take the boat out of the water to do this, and I got to take some pictures before the bottom painting. It was certainly interesting and educational to see the boat out of water. <!--more--><\/p>\n<p>There are lots of important things under the waterline. They make for some boring pictures, so here are some general pictures:<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"imagelink\" title=\"2006-03-04 17-20-35_0033_resize.JPG\" href=\"https:\/\/kosmos.liveflux.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/03\/2006-03-04%2017-20-35_0033_resize.JPG\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" id=\"image79\" height=\"96\" alt=\"2006-03-04 17-20-35_0033_resize.JPG\" src=\"https:\/\/kosmos.liveflux.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/03\/2006-03-04%2017-20-35_0033_resize.thumbnail.JPG\" width=\"128\" \/><\/a>\u00a0<a class=\"imagelink\" title=\"2006-03-04 17-20-19_0032_resize.JPG\" href=\"https:\/\/kosmos.liveflux.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/03\/2006-03-04%2017-20-19_0032_resize.JPG\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" id=\"image78\" height=\"96\" alt=\"2006-03-04 17-20-19_0032_resize.JPG\" src=\"https:\/\/kosmos.liveflux.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/03\/2006-03-04%2017-20-19_0032_resize.thumbnail.JPG\" width=\"128\" \/><\/a>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"imagelink\" title=\"2006-03-04 17-22-07_0036_resize.JPG\" href=\"https:\/\/kosmos.liveflux.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/03\/2006-03-04%2017-22-07_0036_resize.JPG\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" id=\"image81\" height=\"96\" alt=\"2006-03-04 17-22-07_0036_resize.JPG\" src=\"https:\/\/kosmos.liveflux.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/03\/2006-03-04%2017-22-07_0036_resize.thumbnail.JPG\" width=\"128\" \/><\/a>\u00a0<a class=\"imagelink\" title=\"2006-03-04 17-22-30_0037_resize.JPG\" href=\"https:\/\/kosmos.liveflux.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/03\/2006-03-04%2017-22-30_0037_resize.JPG\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" id=\"image77\" height=\"96\" alt=\"2006-03-04 17-22-30_0037_resize.JPG\" src=\"https:\/\/kosmos.liveflux.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/03\/2006-03-04%2017-22-30_0037_resize.thumbnail.JPG\" width=\"128\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a class=\"imagelink\" title=\"2006-03-04 17-26-20_0043_resize.JPG\" href=\"https:\/\/kosmos.liveflux.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/03\/2006-03-04%2017-26-20_0043_resize.JPG\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" id=\"image76\" height=\"96\" alt=\"2006-03-04 17-26-20_0043_resize.JPG\" src=\"https:\/\/kosmos.liveflux.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/03\/2006-03-04%2017-26-20_0043_resize.thumbnail.JPG\" width=\"128\" \/><\/a>\u00a0<a class=\"imagelink\" title=\"2006-03-04 17-27-18_0049_resize.JPG\" href=\"https:\/\/kosmos.liveflux.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/03\/2006-03-04%2017-27-18_0049_resize.JPG\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" id=\"image82\" height=\"96\" alt=\"2006-03-04 17-27-18_0049_resize.JPG\" src=\"https:\/\/kosmos.liveflux.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/03\/2006-03-04%2017-27-18_0049_resize.thumbnail.JPG\" width=\"128\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A few things to notice:\u00a0You can see the main prop and then the wing engine prop to the port side.\u00a0 You can see the metal shafts where the stabilizer fins will be attached.\u00a0 With the boat out of the water this is also the time the stabilizer fins will be attached. The prop has a cutting system around it so things like fishing lines or perhaps a small net will not wrap around the shaft and stop the boat.<\/p>\n<p>Also you may be wondering as to the color of our bottom paint.\u00a0 We decided on simple black. &#8211;Eric<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0 If you stick something in the sea water it does not take too long for it to be covered in furry green marine growth.\u00a0 To reduce the growth special paint is applied to the bottom of boats.\u00a0Of course you &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/kosmos.liveflux.net\/blog\/2006\/03\/05\/boat-construction-update-4\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-85","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-boat-technical"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kosmos.liveflux.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kosmos.liveflux.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kosmos.liveflux.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kosmos.liveflux.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kosmos.liveflux.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=85"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kosmos.liveflux.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kosmos.liveflux.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=85"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kosmos.liveflux.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=85"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kosmos.liveflux.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=85"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}