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Date Posted: - Monday - 05/22/06 - 9:31pm
Author: Randall
Author Host/IP: 64-161-221-132.opentable.com / 64.161.221.132
Subject: Dude, not sailing yet...
In reply to: Wes 's message, "Mast head plate" on - Monday - 05/22/06 - 11:06am

But thanks for askin. We had a little misshap w/the tank order, which just arrived (for the second time) last week.

Apart from being a thing of beauty, the new tank is also perfect. With the extra time from the delay I've stripped the toe rail to bare wood and recalked the seam; then layered up the rail w/cetol light. Am also stripping the main mast to bare wood (to see what's underneath--and so far "underneath" looks OK).

This last weekend got the cockpit sides screwed and glued along w/the frames (and yes, I remembered to put the tank in first--phewww!).

I am under orders to be sailing again by the end of June... I'm OK w/that...

RR

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[> [> OK, WES, I'M SAILING NOW! :) -- Randall, - Monday - 06/26/06 - 8:19pm (64-161-221-132.opentable.com/64.161.221.132)

The cockpit is done.

We stepped the masts on Friday. Finished about 7pm. As the harbor master was shutting down the crane, he said, "I'll be around on Saturday if you forgot something and need to go up the mast again." But I was off the dock and motoring home by 9pm; was in our old slip about 15 miles down bay by midnight. Cold night--crisp and breezy enough to clear ones lungs of months of paint and epoxy. Just enough chop to mist the boat and me with the taste of salt. Fog over the headlands, but stars above. Stars above a boat that moves again.

Endless cleaning on Saturday. Found tools I didn't even know I had and then five (5) half-used rolls of blue tape. Why could I never find that tape when I needed it?

Bent the sails on Sunday morning. Went for a brief sail to make sure such was possible, but was too pooped for what was blowing in the slot, so anchored in Richardson and slept all afternoon.

Good to be done.

RR

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