6 Weeks to Go....

So here we go - six weeks to go and time is ticking away. We're still in the water as the yard has delayed us by a week, but the to-do is shrinking and we're still on track to leave on the 19th.

The weather wasn't looking amazing for the first part of the weekennd so I headed over to a friend's house and grabbed our spare sails. Their house has some size to it so I figured whilst we were stuck indoors, we might as well see what was in the bags.

It looks like our spare main is relatively new so I'm going to test fit it when we go back in the water and it might become our primary.

After that, I headed back to the boat and got on with painting. And more painting. And, you guessed it, more painting. It's 99% done now and just needs the final few spots touched up when we haul out.

Grant got cracking and trimmed up the swim platform to make it a bit less prone to getting smashed by any following seas.

Last up, we removed the booms and tidied the lines in preparation for the masts being dropped next week.

So that's it for the moment. We're hauling out in 4 days time, spending the weekend in the slings where I'll get all the bottom jobs done (anodes, rope cutters, watermaker thru hull fitted, tape up and paint the boot stripe, then drop out that oh-so-annoying sticky rudder bearing) then we're dropping the rig at the start of next week.

Anyways, this time in six weeks we'll be motoring out of this marina and heading west. Almost there...