Dione IV

Adventures Afloat with Wim and Sher

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  • Painting hall

    Painting hall

    Highlights – the overview Off to the painting hall we go, and Dione IV gets several layers of primer in preparation for our new Coppercoat anti-fouling bottom paint. The first primer layer is “battleship” gray and is applied directly following the grit blasting. They use some epoxy filler at the top edge of the grit…

  • Grit Blasting

    Grit Blasting

    Today, Dione IV is moved to the grit blasting hall. Here, she will be wrapped in thick plastic foil and the underwater hull will be blasted with grit.

  • Steel Welding

    Steel Welding

    In the steel welding hall, convex shapes are added for the bow thruster for improved hydrodynamics.

  • Bowthuster

    Bowthuster

    We prepare for the installation of the bow thruster, which involves cutting 2 HUGE holes in the bow of Dione’s hull, positioned below the waterline. What?!!! Really?

  • Cleaning

    Cleaning

    While we wait for space in the steel workshop, we spend the time washing and cleaning everything…

  • Hoisted on Shore

    Hoisted on Shore

    Today Dione IV gets hoisted on shore for enhancements (adding a bow thruster) and her routine maintenance.

This is how it all started…

Thanks to Lovesail.com, a dating and social-networking website for people passionate about sailing, two avid sailors and full-time live-aboard cruisers from different countries halfway around the world (who were otherwise unlikely to have ever met), found each other. And so began the journey to share love and life, and fulfill their dreams together!

Dione IV first gets some enhancements and spa treatments in the boat yard, and then we sail off into the sunset!….

Wim & Sher

Sailors, Ocean Dwellers, and World Travelers!