PENDING HAUL OUT

 After 2 years in the water, we haul out on Monday and do some pre-offshore work.  Bottom paint, hull polishing, zincs, and repacking the stuffing box.  We will also check all through hulls, and repaint the length markers on the anchor chain.  More to come with pictures etc.

COVID-19, LOCKDOWNS, AND SAILING PLANS

 

I have to admit to being a bit tired of the very necessary restrictions we have all endured over the last year.  We have been readying the boat for our trip south down the west coast of the US, and on to Mexico.  We may try and join the Baja Haha departing San Diego on November 1, 2021.  They expect it to happen this year (it was cancelled last year for obvious reasons).

Vaccine distribution is well underway in both the US and Canada.  As a result, we think a departure in September is possible and we are planning for that date.  

Meanwhile, we had a quite Christmas and New Years without any fanfare.  

Dinner on Board is Cozy

Meanwhile Outside Ice Flows Down 

River From the Higher Country 

Up River

WINTER RAINS

 So we are hunkering down for the next few months, partly due to Covid-19, and partly due to the relentless rain we see here in the Pacific Northwest.  We removed all the rigging as you saw in an earlier post, and now we just messenger lines showing.  

Just Messenger Lines

Winter Sunrise

But Cozy Inside

CLEANING WINCHES

 Just have one more big one and a couple small winches to service

Large Winch

Taken Apart and Being Cleaned

Base Plate.  The Motor is Beneath This

RIGGING PUT AWAY

 We decided that all new rigging would not be in place over the rainy winter only to get moss and other crap on them.  So we took them all down and stowed them.  We also removed the new sails for the same reason.  

Running Rigging Tagged 

More Rigging

AFTER THE REFIT

 It has been a busy summer with the COVID crisis, so forgive us for not updating our page. Buthere are a number of pictures from the re-stepping of the mast onward.

Montague Harbour Marine Park

Om the Buoy in Montague Harbour

Picture From the Dinghy

Wind Generator, Solar Panels and SUNSHINE

 

STEPPING THE MAST AFTER REFIT

We were without a mast for three weeks.  Returning to Steveston, we tied up at the same location nearby the travel lift a we did when the mast was removed.  We went to see the mast as it was readied for installation

A Mast-less Sailboat

Mast With New Standing

and Running Rigging

The Biggest Change Is the Mechanical

Connections for the Turnbuckles

to the Stainless Steel Wire

8 Minute Vid of Reinstall