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Very impressed with interlux bottom paint. It mixes easily! With one gallon I put a nice heavy coat on, had enough to do two coats at the transom also the sides. Still have enough left to paint when the stands are removed. 

Second boat to dinner of the season 

Much to my chagrin, I recently found a SECOND way to break my swim platform.  

Before lowering the platform, you have to raise it slightly to disengage the locks.  It's all done automatically by the pump controller, so it's IMPOSSIBLE to lower the platform without raising it first.  FOOLPROOF ... except my 14-year-old controller failed.  The platform went directly down, breaking one of my freshly repaired locks. 

So this week I rebuilt the controller.  Here's the "before" pic.  This was some seriously convoluted wiring ... a real hack-job, like maybe the first one they ever built.  Took me a while to figure out the circuit logic of diodes and a delay module.  As I've learned the hard way, delay modules have a service life of only 5-7 years.  

Here's my rebuild in a watertight enclosure with proper cable glands for the wiring.  Only $150 in parts and about 60 hours in DIY labor.  

It works great.  Now I just have to haul the boat (yet again) to re-repair the locks.  Guessing I'll have somebody rebuild the pump too, as I'm sure it will die sooner or later.