Progress through the summer

Ship's Log – August 11, 2009

What a “summer”. First two months of rain – hence no shakedown time, then the company or needing to be away just about every weekend. Not that that is a bad thing – just takes time. Inbetween we keep muddling along. Mark is working on a dingy-to-boat attachment system – still has bugs to work out. More hoses and wiring have been added or redone; an additional battery charging system is in the works; new faucets and filters for the galley; the engine has been balanced; the nav computer died (of course) so it had to be replaced and of course there is some challenge in reloading all the charts, not to mention getting the routes that I had worked on; still haven’t figured out a table arrangement for the salon, but there are new deck chairs; etc., etc.

We still are planning for an early September departure!