The People Catcher

The long awaited bow rails are finally installed. A very tedious job involving about one hundred trips from deck to fore cabin and back to align and finally get the rail bases bolted down. Even some blood letting from attempting to reach into unreachable places to screw on and tighten retaining nuts. Tomorrow will get the nose piece formed and installed.This can be rotated out of the way to allow lines to be repositioned without being taken aboard if necessary. Forty eight bolts closer to finishing construction. :-)

Time out

Foul weather and a laundry list of house repairs has caused a pause in boat work for the past week or so. We replaced 11 thermopane windows and completed a number of interior details left over from the hurricane Ivan rebuild. Because the windows are custom built in cedar frames we had to break them out and then painstakingly remove the bits of glass, metal insulation strip and original adhesive, a 2-3 hour process per window. NOT FUN. We also pressure washed most of the exterior and will re-stain the washed areas over the next few days. Hopefully by the weekend we will be able to do our long delayed mini shakedown to Pensacola.