It took more than 3 weeks of patience and a lot of hard work by Luke Bussey and his dad Barry to get the whole court rejuvenated. The weather was a big factor when doing this work and it played havoc throughout with 34C+ temperatures one week and then 1", pea size hail stones on another week.
Luke owns Canadian Shield Surfacing and his specialty is redoing court surfaces. He knows his trade well, he works harder than anyone we've seen, he's honest and he takes tremendous pride in what he does. Does it sound like we're happy?
It took 3 coats of leveler, an amazing amount of patching and sanding to the fill holes, two coats of colour and then the lines painted on. Our guests will be tremendously happy with what they find this summer. The transformation from a rough, tired old court to what we have now is fantastic.
Luke and his dad were each given the honorary first serve to open the new surface.
What is going on here. Over the May Long weekend the weather was glorious -
temperatures reached upwards of 30C, sunshine and guests enjoying the lake. Then a few weeks later we had a tremendous hail storm. About an inch of hail with pieces the size of a marbles came pounding down. It was very localized but it knocked the power out for hours and made quite a mess of our roads and walkways. We even had to delay our tennis court resurfacing for a few days until everything dried up. We are now back to resurfacing the court and temperatures are back up into the 30C's. What's going on?
For now it looks like the next week or so will be great. The new court surface should be down by the weekend if we are lucky. So bring your rackets and get ready for some good tennis. The new Moomba ski/wakeboard boat is looking good too! We were out for a ride tonight to test things out.
