Steady As She Goes

After we launched, work progressed at a slow and steady pace. We had been working about 12 hours a day, and really only took breaks for mealtimes. We all needed a little down time to adjust to our new environment, and to a new schedule.

A close up of Raoul doing the finishing touches to the crow's nest basket.

Tamer's new shop on the starboard side of the cargo hold, which is still to this day being perfected and re-organized.

One of the last major projects is making the interior more livable. Of course you need lots of lumber for this, and it is difficult to get aboard in the dinghy.
Tamer's ingenuity has once again proved successful! He made himself a towing barge out of the inflatable dinghy, the sailing dinghy, and the inflatable kayak.

Lots o' lumber.....

Off loading is only half the fun :-)

Valin and Drake helping to install the interior shelving and cabinets in Valin's berth.

Blayde, in his on the Port side.

A still shot of what it is like to live and work aboard a sail boat.
A couple of energy drinks, an frs radio, a selection of polyurethane stains, and of course a bookshelf for the focsul laying across the starboard settee.

One evening we found water pooling in the aft bilge (where there should not have been any). Upon close inspection we found that the shaft post was leaking under the bed in the aft cabin. The rudder post is what keeps the rudder attached and able to steer the boat properly.

After repacking the seals, and doing a bit of clean up... my bed can now be reinstalled and we can fall into it knowing that the boat is not going to sink!!