The Work Yard

The new name logo.

We have done much of the mechanical work and right now I am unable to access the boat so I have a few days off!  The painters are working on the upper blue stripe and have come to a stage where the sanding is completed and the primer coat has been sprayed on.  I will sneak into the yard tomorrow and get a picture of the progress.  

Should be smooooth running.

It is a beautiful thing!!

 The mechanical parts look great and if it is as well aligned as it looks we should not have much issue with how it works.  We are actually talking about having a shake down sail in a few weeks.  The mechanical part of the autopilot is also pretty much done and I was half way through putting new faucets in the heads.  The rudder was getting a barrier coat on it today as well and we had a good look at just how much work has been done on it this morning.  It looks pretty solidly fixed at this point.  Any day now all that is out of the boat will go back in or on and it will be ready for launching.  We can do a lot of work at the dock while we get ready for what follows.

It looked even better the last time I saw it!!

We are talking about our route south too.  I checked the probable routes this afternoon and am pondering the 2-3-4 day passages that are likely.  It is simply a matter of being ready for a longer passage and the new autopilot should help that considerably.