We are finally getting closer to leaving. Our boat is moved out of the storage yard and into the production yard to have the bottom stripped, epoxy coated, a...

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today's a pretty big day we've got the

boat moving from the storage yard into

the production yard so they can get

started on stripping the bottom and

hopefully the master go in in the next

few days hopefully which is kind of

exciting that means stuff's gonna get

done

progress is always good but this is

actually kind of a big deal for a couple

of reasons first of all it's progress

but second of all we're not actually

doing the work on the bottom in 20 years

of owning a sailboat this will be the

first time that we're not doing the

bottom work

it's kind of fun

kind of excited about that is doing the

bottom it's a miserable job I'm just

dropping off at my mom's house

we have commandeered my mom's living

room and dining room so we can lay out

our sails we found a couple little I

guess

safe spots that need to be patched up

and repaired we know that actually have

a place to do this anymore so my mom is

lucky enough to be stuck well that's for

a couple of days other than the bottom

being done sails being worked on and the

mast going in we still have a lot of

other stuff to do

it's kind of amazing how much stuff has

to happen to take off we're getting

anxious to get on the water and start

making our way south heading to Mexico

it's been sort of frustrating just

having the boat in the boatyard for

months on end here we are time to get to

work

we've been having some rust issues of

appeal so we're having a yard to strip

detail down to bare metal epoxy coating

and I think the entire bottom anti

mountain

first step is to remove as much of the

old paint the pressure washer as

possible

or a next couple of days the yard will

tint off the entire bottom and start

grinding and prepping the keel for the

epoxy coating

other yards working on the bottom we're

trying to finish up some other

last-minute projects before we're back

in the water

Brenda's been busy finishing up the last

of our mosquito screens for our hatches

our new mast has a different sized sail

track and the old mast

Brenda's replacing all the sail slides

on our first that's usually the hardest

there's perfect-looking tailslide on the

twenty one more to go

while Brenda's working on the sale

slides I've been crawling around

underneath the floorboards swapping out

bulldozes pics in a couple of weeks

I really care who you are it's just

never easy drilling holes in your boat

part of my list of things to do is to

find a place to put all of our charts

since no one exactly know I'm gonna take

a right or a left when I get to Panama

we've got charts that will go all the

way through the Caribbean to the

Mediterranean as well as all the way out

the Pacific to Australia

I still haven't exactly figured out

where to put all these charts when

Brenda was replacing the sale slides she

noticed some chafing on the sales

so we've taken over my mom's house so we

can give the sales a good ol once-over

Brenda's putting on some patches and

reinforcements as well as Reese catching

our storm

well that's about it for this episode

we're hoping to be installing the mast

in the next couple of days

and then back in the water shortly after

that so until next time

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