You pussy.
But you don't want piss everywhere. At sea, anyone who is not a disgusting slob sits to piss, unless it's calm enough to just piss off the stern.
But even then, some say that a weirdly high number of tipsy-ish sailors die due to falling overboard in this stern-pissing maneuver. I'd rather not research that statistic one way or other. Even a super annoying crewmember can't be lost at sea like that, if only for captainly rep. And certainly the captain must not go out in such a shameful manner!
You dont disappoint.
No, I do. I'm here aboard, ostensibly sanding and varnishing at least the portside upper brightwork... but here I am online, drinking a beer not sanding or anything. I am disappoint. Do disparage me for wasting such a lovely sunny day like this.
Okay, I figured, 'what is the most visible? THE BOW!' So I did this little piece real quicklike. My previous pressurewashing blasted off the worst of the bad old varnish I had neglected to oblivion, so sanding was pretty easy. Then I applied the custom sealer I just made, by adding some shellac to the transparent sealer I didn't like the color of previously, and
I have since added a coat of varnish, so that visible texture is more obscured, and after the next 6 or 8 coats, with fine sanding in between, will remove all the rest of that, so that it looks like a perfectly shiny flat surface. Then for ALL THE REST!
But at least I did something!
P.S. That cruddy looking line on the coachroof above that bit of brightwork is pretty much bare fibreglass. I just left it like that, because once this brightwork job is done, I can mask it off and repaint the decks, as per the plan. Weather is uncooperative, so at least I have that excuse, but today was really pretty, so I could do at least this much now...
Why not piss off the bow? Might give you time to grab onto something.
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