Home Port; on the Delaware River at Fox Grove Marina Essington PA.

2012-2013 Work

On the hard at Fox Grove.

12-11-2012 Hull cleaned,
sanded and power washed, 4 dry days forecast,
with overnight temperature above freezing.

12-14-2012 Bottom Paint,
coal tar epoxy with copper flour. 
Low 50's F and 40% RH,  sunny and 50's F tomorrow then rain for next 5 days.
epoxyproducts.com
Edouard Manet Tarring the Boat
Barnes Foundation Philadelphia PA

1-12-2013 Bottom paint
50's F daytime and above freezing overnight. Boat stands were relocated the previous day, light sand stand area, bottom coat stand area and use up the rest of the coal tar epoxy on a double coat at the water line and bottom of keel.

3-9-2012
West Marine SeaGlossPro Polyurethane Topside Paint


3-10-2013
fixed portlights to under cockpit berths
sailboatstuff.com

To do
-new fore peak berth cushions
-install more LED interior lighting
-remove straighten and re-install two bent stanchions, stanchions removed 12-15-2012.
-replace cockpit drain hoses to existing through hulls.
-install second battery with off-1-2-both switch and relocate batteries to midship 12/3/2012 switch and cables purchased.

-clean and paint unfinished fiberglass interior surfaces, washed with bathroom mold and mildew cleaner.
-clean and paint deck and cockpit with brightside.

-better socket for outboard alternator jack?
-fix forward hatch, duct tape is not a solution even if it does work,


Hard stuff that may not happen;
- Junk/Balanced Lug Rig Conversion
-close under lazzarete area and closed cell foam fill?
-clean and paint under sole
-clean and paint locker interiors
-clean and stain/varnish sole

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Ulladh

Ulladh pronounced "ul-la" (null lad).





Uladh the gaelic spelling for the territory of the U-Nail chieftains in the ancient Irish province of Ulster (English/Norse), originally the counties of Down and Antrim, but now including Derry, Armagh, Tyrone, Fermanagh, Donegal, Cavan and Monaghan, also referred to as Ulidia (Greek/Roman),.



Uladh was the home of a pre-celtic, cruithne (crew-en-ya) pictish tribe, who may have been descendants of prehistoric tribes indigenous to the British Isles since the retreat of the last ice age.



Evidence from cut marks on deer bones from more than 30,000 years ago found in the karst formations of the Burren probably from hunters suggest a homonid precence. Archeological finds date first inhabitants (DNA evidence suggests dark or black skin and blue eyes) to about 6,000 BC and trade goods from Rathlin Island, County Antrim off the northeast coast of Ireland made from porcellanite stone appearing in Egypt and Crete by 2,500 BC.



The early tribes of Ireland where displaced by later waves of migrants from mainland Europe; about 1700 BC by bronze age tribes, celtic tribes about 500 BC, and in the past two millenia; Roman trading posts, Viking settlements, English plantations... and in the 21st century a welcome increasing diversity from the European Union and the world.



SV Ulladh (for vhf clarity I use "sailing vessel ul-la") is named for the territory of the first peoples to settle in Ireland after the retreat of the last ice age.



Fisksatra

Since 1949 Fisksatra Varv in the coastal town of Fisksatra Sweden, built fiberglass boats from dinghies to a 300 ton minesweeper for the Swedish Navy.

The Havsfidra 20's were built between 1968 and the late 1970's to Swedish Navy and Lloyd's certification standards.

The Havsfidra 20 and a larger version the Storfidra 26 where sold in the United States by Continental Yachts and Trawler Agency of Atlantic City NJ.

Havsfidra; sea-feather?
(fidra; to touch or tickle with a feather -Icelandic-English Dictionary, Clarendon Press 1874)