Ready for launch

At 4:10 PM today, Sunday May 2, we offloaded a winter's worth of tools, extension cords, worklights and other stuff and declared the boat ready to go. Enough, already! Time to enjoy the old boat and rejoin our dockmates on A-dock.

Saturday was consumed with lots of small things, several of which decided not to cooperate but eventually gave way to our persistent energy. The Type 1 PFD was mounted on the bridge as was one of our four fire extinguishers. Hope we never need either one.

Then the door to the head needed to be reinstalled and that broken reading light in the lower berth replaced.  All small stuff but better to get it done now.

Forgot to mention the CO detector. A boat like this with a big sliding door needs one.

Sunday morning, the list had grown shorter. We'll be so glad to not have a list for a while.

We chewed through just about everything on the list on Sunday.  Frances put things in order and loaded up for the end of the day.  She also vacuumed the boat.

The plan is to take the boat out of the shed on Wednesday at the end of the day, leaving it hanging in the Travel-Lift slings over night.  Our friend Stu Noelte will apply the name to the transom while the boat is in the slings and we'll show up and scrape and paint off the "spots" on the boat's bottom where it has rested on the jackstands all winter.

Before we left on Sunday afternoon, we put out lines all the way around for the launching crew and positioned our new fenders.

That's it for what has been a very interesting winter in storage.  See you all in Norwich were our blog will continue with our summer adventures.