Off Season Maintenance – 2013

The boats are on the hill and the houses sit empty, but the action never stops at Nosara Paradise Rentals and FishingNosara. Like all great franchises, we don’t rebuild…we reload!

Image Hosted by ImageShack.us

The Explorer is the focus of this year’s boat work. With over 400 trips under her belt, the Super panga has outperformed all exceptions. However there are a few rough spots that we hope to address during the next two months.

Image Hosted by ImageShack.us

Captain David and Captain Carlos have already strengthened the soft spots in the floor with fresh fiberglass

Image Hosted by ImageShack.us

They also plan to revamp the cabinets in the consoles, touch up some hasty mid-season fiberglass repairs, and of course go around the entire boat and service every bolt, nut, and washer with fresh 5200.

The Wanderer received such a thorough rebuild last off season that this year the maintenance is mostly cosmetic.

Image Hosted by ImageShack.us

Clearly a new coat of bottom paint is in order, along with a new set of stickers for the prow (look close…the port side says “WAND_RER”

Image Hosted by ImageShack.us

First Mate Alex is redoing the finish and stain on his custom fighting chair. This item takes a lot of abuse from clients during the year so it needs to be tightened up. In addition to being an excellent carpenter and a world-class fisherman, Alex is a perfectionist and will do whatever it takes to get this piece up to his high standards.

Image Hosted by ImageShack.us

The property staff is also busy getting Nosara Paradise Rentals ready for another banner year. As usual all of the houses are getting fresh paint and varnish, but the real star of this year’s work is the facelift for Casa Caribe.

This two bedroom house on the outer perimeter of the Nature Preserve has pleased many clients over the years, yet we never loved the drab pastels of the paint scheme, especially the pumpkin orange.

Image Hosted by ImageShack.us

Here’s the new look of electric blue and yellow. These pictures barely do it justice, but believe me that now this house POPS out of the jungle.

Image Hosted by ImageShack.us

Image Hosted by ImageShack.us

Also the upstairs patio deck was starting to get a little soft so in the interest of safety and longevity we ripped out the old deck and installed a completely new one.

Image Hosted by ImageShack.us

If you need someone to defy gravity you can always count on Grevan Hernandez…Look how he flies with the greatest of ease!

Image Hosted by ImageShack.us

Image Hosted by ImageShack.us

Image Hosted by ImageShack.us

Image Hosted by ImageShack.us

Image Hosted by ImageShack.us

So the property staff is on the houses and the boat guys are on the boats, so where do you think the office guys are?

Image Hosted by ImageShack.us

That’s right…Repainting and reorganizing the office!

Image Hosted by ImageShack.us

Image Hosted by ImageShack.us

Image Hosted by ImageShack.us

Image Hosted by ImageShack.us

Image Hosted by ImageShack.us

Anybody want to help Arturo inventory the our shirts?

Image Hosted by ImageShack.us

Didn’t think so!

Image Hosted by ImageShack.us

Work continues and we look forward to sharing the results in the October report.