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Dry Dock 2005 - Tauranga

The ship is hauled up the slipway at Sulphur Point for her yearly hull repaint. The hull is waterblasted, scraped by hand, primed and resprayed with fresh antifouling. Past crew is recognise this annual ritual of labour with fond nostalgia...

High water - up she goes.	In the steel cradle.	Blast off!	Just fits in the slipway cover.	Spars ashore
Kenny, fully primed.	Audrey on the chain gang.	Mate Mickel.	Nate on the hull.	Engineer Eddie with Mal.
Hull prep.	Topsides paint.	Hull prep.	Tony caulking	Ulrick with precious pins.
The massive lines of the hull..	Painting on a big canvas.	Nic caulking	Astrid rescaling	Mickel and new chain sections.
Tony caulking by midnight oil.	Astrid/Kenny:days end!	Bow ready to paint.	And the stern.	Rare sight of the prop.
Soren a la Cunard.	Chain, chain, chain..	The airless spray man gets to work.	Two coats of International antifoul.	Ship in a box.
Back in the water.	Tiger -over from OZ to help.	Back in the water.

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