Well damn if this doesn't suck! Sunday I want to the boat determined to figure out how to use the power buffer I bought to polish the boat. After a few sections, I kind of have the routine down, I believe. While it is nowhere near as good as a skilled person can do, I'm happy. I equate the task to sanding sheetrock on a ceiling...there just is no comfortable position. I did about half of one side, again, not perfect and it's a little swirly but at least the chalky gel coat is getting sealed and hopefully the brown waterway mustache wont be so prominent this time. If you look real close in the picture, you can see where I quit polishing and the before & after difference. If I have the energy, I feel a 2nd buffing will make it look much better with less splotches. We'll see how that goes.
Here's the sucky part. I was planning on taking a couple of days off this week to finish the polishing debacle & to reassemble the engine, hopefully reinstalling it. Well, that didn't work out too well. I wasn't feeling 100% Monday & by that night I felt like crap. Tuesday was worse and Wednesday was horrible. I'm pretty sure I've caught the much-hyped covid flu virus that's turned the world upside down. There was a 3-day backlog to get tested, which is absolutely ridiculous to me. I'm glad they call themselves urgent care.
All of my symptoms are indicating I've got it, which ,again, is really ridiculous since I was more or less told by the corporation where I'm employed that I had to get the miracle shots this spring. A lot of good they did. Now I'm hearing the shots lesson the symptoms but that wasn't what they were telling me when the jabbed me twice.
Enough of that rant The good news is , as per my company, I have to quarantine for 10 days so I'm thinking that ,while today I don't have the stamina to tie my shoes, I should be well enough by Saturday to be quarantined while working on our boat! I guess there's a silver lining to this temporary storm cloud after all.