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[redbopeep]

Hey, all,

Well, we've just sold our smaller boat, a Rawson 30, to a wonderful couple who will be giving the boat a good home and hopefully cruising on her in the next few years. The closing is scheduled for early next week. I'm happy to have her off our mooring so we have a spot for our cruising boat! But now, we'll be without a boat to sail for a couple months. We're scheduled to move our schooner back to the water sometime this summer. Earliest possible is late June but it will be dependent upon the boatmover's schedule as well as availability at the travel lift and the visitors' dock at our marina. The dockmaster will give us a month (minimum) on the visitors' dock, which we'll need because ours is a wood boat which will be swelling up during that timeframe and taking on a lot of water during the process.

In the meanwhile, we work, work, work towards the re-launch. Rigging expected to take place after we're sure we don't have to haul out again w/hull issues. So...maybe August before we're rigged up and able to sail again. Ah, but then, so much closer to the cruising life!

[Lighthouse]

You must be itching to get going. Selling your smaller boat is certainly that step forward.

[Trim50]

Do you have any new pictures of the progress? When do you think you'll meet us at Catalina?

[redbopeep]

Do you have any new pictures of the progress? When do you think you'll meet us at Catalina?

I want to go NOW!

However, reality sets in...we'll be on an insurance policy limiting us to the San Diego harbor until we've worked the kinks out. Then, according to our surveyor, we'll probably go up to Catalina as one of our first sea trials. So, um, who knows--hopefully late summer but likely next fall.

Our surveyor is a funny fellow. He says that usually people are so busy fixing all the stuff they "thought" they had fixed that they're afraid to leave the harbor anyway. Basically, his 1-2-3 is: San Diego Harbor; trip to Catalina; longer trip up and 'round the Channel Islands. Usually the shake down cruise around the Channel Islands is the go - no go point for him to sign off on the boat being seaworthy for blue water cruising.

[redbopeep]

Well, its going to be sink or swim for us this summer. We have a rental studio that we've been in while rebuilding the cruising boat...Our landlord is renovating the apartments and asked us when we'd be moving since she knows its coming up soon. She wasn't pushing us but we decided to make the commitment to be out by August 1st. So in 65 days we'll be truly "homeless" and have to be living on the boat (well, and our two storage lockers...)

We confirmed with the boatyard that IF for some reason we're not launched by then we can move aboard in situ. They laughed and said it had happened before... We'll hope that the boat is in the water before we have to move aboard!

So the countdown begins.

[MMNETSEA]

we decided to make the commitment to be out by August 1st. So in 65 days we'll be truly "homeless" and have to be living on the boat (well, and our two storage lockers...)
So the countdown begins.

In this time zone only 64 days and if we don't count 1st Aug only 63 !

So @ 2 pictures every week for 9 weeks , it will be better than watching paint dry.

[redbopeep]

OK, lots of hyperventilating going on right now--we're still moving aboard at the end of the month but are in no shape to get into the water before oh, September at the earliest. Projects piling up and taking longer than expected. We've got the list of "has to be done before we can launch" and it still includes some pretty basic stuff (lots of plumbing, new thru-hulls, seacocks, exhaust system...) as well as hull painting and varnish work.

We spent part of the weekend doing more "fun" stuff like ordering the new flooring material for the head (oh, the material ordered won't be here for 2 weeks...) and shopping for a galley sink (big galley so there's room for a regular house-sized sink). We spent the other part of the weekend packing up some boxes in the studio and taking them to the storage unit and boatyard. We'll end up spending next weekend finishing the move leaving us just a mattress on the floor of the studio until the end of the month. Every day this week we'll be taking a carload of stuff to the boat so that hopefully it will be an easy move.

I'm sort of anxiously awaiting the arrival of our "Airhead" composting toilet since we'll be living aboard IN THE BOATYARD starting August 1 and I really don't like the idea of walking with a flashlight to the office (on the other end of the boatyard) in the middle of the night.

Well, its the start of another week at the boatyard. This week involves putting back together the windlass, scribing the new waterline, priming above the waterline on the port side (only enough scaffold to do one side at a time!), making a new companionway ladder, locating the right spots on the hull for all the planned thru-hulls, making wood backing blocks for and installing eight above waterline and two below waterline bronze thru hulls (and the 10 seacocks that go along with them).

Things that are on order and aren't here yet--2 waterlock mufflers, the Airhead toilet, the flooring that goes under it, 8 of the thru-hulls, the prop shaft, bushings for the steering gear self alignment bearing, the Kobelt engine control system.

Things that are sitting here waiting to be installed--the Interphase FLS, the engine gage panel, the new spigots for the portholes, the refinished butterfly hatches and forward companionway/scuttle, the shower sump/drain pump, the fuel fill caps that go on deck and fuel tanks vent lines...and misc other stuff...

Hyperventilate...ok it will all get done at some point!

[MMNETSEA]

OK, lots of hyperventilating going on right now--we're still moving aboard at the end of the month and shopping for a galley sink (big galley so there's room for a regular house-sized sink).

Hyperventilate...ok it will all get done at some point!

Hi Brenda,

Midnight OIL !!!!

ELKAY do a very good double sink -- at least one of which is deep

Their S. Cal outlets :-
ELKAY SINKS

Richard

[redbopeep]

Hi Brenda,

Midnight OIL !!!!

ELKAY do a very good double sink -- at least one of which is deep

Their S. Cal outlets :-
ELKAY SINKS

Richard

I like the Elkay sinks--I had a huge single bowl (deep) one in my house kitchen. I'm looking for a wide single bowl similar to that one--I found that I could use a rubbermaid dishpan in it and set all kinds of things next to the dishpan. Also had a nice cutting board that sat over it. Of single bowl deep sinks, I'm not finding exactly what I want yet. The original sink in the boat was a too-deep commercial sink about 27x27x24 deep. Very strange sink.

[redbopeep]

Update--

++ The cat knows something's up--he's began "hugging" the bed in the studio and won't even move for us to make the bed in the mornings. Guess he knows that the days are numbered for his nice snoozing while we're away for the day working on the boat. In a short week, he'll be trying to snooze while we're making all kinds of racket in the boat!

++ The rest of my thru hulls arrived in the mail yesterday. Bronze Conbraco (Apollo) from Discount Yacht Supply in PA. Four 1.5" for above waterline bilge pumps and shower sump and four 2" for above waterline cockpit drains. Upon inspection, one of the 1.5" ones has a casting flaw that goes all the way from inside thru the threads. It would leak directly upon installation! Though the company did not advertise these as factory "seconds" I begin to believe that is the case. I've contacted the company, but its just one more little "detail" to keep track of as things progress.

++ Hubby got the companionway stair/ladder completed yesterday afternoon. That thing was kicking his ___ with difficulty. He's normally very, very quick with such projects but this one took a couple days to do. It has two "fixed" permanent steps at the bottom and one "fixed" permanent step at the top the this fancy little ladder part that pivots out with thee steps on it. The "removable" part allows access to the front of the engine/alternator/flywheel, etc. The whole thing is quite pretty (Sapele aka African Mahogany) and I'll be varnishing it as soon as the dust settles from our sanding of the cabin-house (charthouse) exterior today and tomorrow. Haven't decided on what to use for anti-slip surface (the sticky tape just doesn't seem quite right).

++ I figured out that our fold-away aluminum Gorilla Ladder is the perfect thing to access the inside of the boat via any of the three 24"x24" butterfly hatches in the deck (good to know as there was no companionway ladder earlier this week and we won't be walking on my newly varnished one for a bit)

++ Decided that a 8" stainless steel bowl with a hole drilled through the bottom will make a great sink in the head. All the "small" sinks I've found so far are at least 12" diameter which is way too big! Still haven't decided on the galley sink. Will be washing dishes in a bucket starting next week...

++ We're eating really strange combos of food as we try to empty the pantry and 'frig before the move. Since our refrigeration in the near term consists of one of those little 12V icechest cooler/frig's we're eating all our frig stuff from the studio apartment. So, I've been backing all the frozen pies--we've been eating Mrs Smith's pumpkin pie, Claimjumpers' blackberry pie, and we're having lots of the veggies from the freezer. A meal is mixed veggies steamed and a piece of pie.

++ Using a handy laser to verify level waterline, I've marked 1/2 of the port side (that was yesterday afternoon) and will get my nerve up to mark the rest this afternoon. The above waterline primer goes on as soon as I've marked the line.

Well...that's kinda where we are at the moment

[Lighthouse]

"Red", thanks for the update. I've been following your progress with great interest.

[redbopeep]

"Red", thanks for the update. I've been following your progress with great interest.

Progress--Ha! This is a sad, sad state of affairs; no turning back though. 6 days...