49 days to go.....

Weekend #1 of our final period of work came and went in a bit of a soggy flash. Lauren made a huge dent in sorting through our food stores and we did another big shop of cans, pasta and rice to begin building our long term stores. Grant's also been making great progress fitting the final bits of wood trim so that left me to get the fore deck and wheelhouse painted.

This is England though, and I should have known better. All was going well to start with and I managed to get all the taping done and the first coat of paint down.

The weather was even playing ball and we had an amazing corona rainbow show itself early on the Saturday morning.

Then the rain and wind hit. 40kts and driving drizzle meant all work outside effectively stopped. I still managed to fit some protectors to the stainless angle I've used for the kayak supports and also get some cleats fitted to the swim platform, but the remainder of the weekend was spent indoors, looking for jobs to do. Honestly, I hate this weather.

Still, anything is better than being back at our old rubbish boat yard and at least we don't dry out here. 

This coming weekend is 5 days long thanks to Easter, so the plan is to get the last of the painting done (deck and handrails), prep the rig for being lowered next week, paint the bilges and get all the 6mm shrouds made up (the 8mm shrouds will get done once the rig is lowered). We're still set to haul out on the 10th April as well so everything is still on track - it'd just be great if the weather played ball and allowed us to finish the work off.

49 days to go....