Jubilent and terrifying

Crazy emotions launching a boat and she hards feels like our just yet!

Picknick stations at the ready

There is all ways good reason to make sure we dont take life to seriously. Specially when someone else is about to sling your 6.7 ton beloved into the air!

Buffing and polishing

Hopefully the lift in to the water is not as hard work as today. Shoulders and arms falling off now. Its was a fabulous reward to move in today! Staying the night for the first time. Cooked dinner, had a shower in the marina and spent the evening sorting stuff out finding homes for things and putting up the clock and barometer my dad bought for our first boat.

After painting on the last of the anti foil bottom paint and assembling the prop this morning i work after short lunch until 6pm buffing and polishing the top sides and stern. Oooohh its all shiny now.

Satisfying

Sometime things are just plain satisfying. A good polish and biff up and new anodes should see the prop in good service for a year or two.

Love propellor

I think i might have loved polishing my propellor a wee bit to much, not sure it needs to be that shiny!

First coat on

Seriously tough rubbing down all day sanding back rough hull and painting, feeling it now need a hot bath, but very satisfying.

Anyone want to help paint the anti foil

Driven all the way from home having a weather forecast that suggested the tain would stop 10ish, oh well still a whole side to scrape down just hope its dry enough this afternoon to get a coat of anti foil on, when i am done scraping down in the rain.

Antifoul

Great to be getting stuck in to the annual maintenance. Having the family to help really bought the job on and will save me a lot of work next week. I feel very privileged to have such a willing and enthusiastic family to share our sailing adventures and boat preparations also.

What a BOAT!

 Omg! Please forgive my over enthusiasum and profound sense of joy there is nothing like owning a new (to me) boat. Having been without a family sailing boat for just under a year after having one for the past ten, it feels more of a relief than i expected to ne back on the water with a vessel that is full of our sealeg expectations. Planning for norway next year seems so much less a dream now we have a vessel fit for purpose. Now the new boat familiarisation begins and work of working out how to sail her oh and her annual maintance oh and paying all the bills and finding crew to sail with….. i nearly forgot how involved keeping a boat is. Having not yet tried moving her yet ahe is quite intimidating! Only 9 feet longer than our last boat she appears exponential bigger and is! Experienced crew to manage mooring lines and fenders are going to be required to navigate out into the blue and perhaps a less windy day the first time for me will inspire a little more confidence than i have now. The last skipper assures me she is very manoeuverable in the harbour with her skeg rudder. Having witnessed the survey yesterday she passed with flying colours, the surveyor announced he was jealous and pronounced the boat a very fine example of her class, very reassuring.