The last few things...

This was an odd weekend weather-wise. Saturday morning, sea conditions in Block Island Sound were under a Small Craft Warning with seas 3-5 ft.  A number of our dockmates were at Block and as it turned out, the conditions were fine and everyone got back as planned.

Our list is down to almost nothing but "almost nothing" includes our inflatable, which we have been tripping over in the garage since spring.  Time to haul it down to the marina, pump it up and then mount the $270 Extended Weaver Davits on the swim platform. To do that we had to move the boat forward so we'd have room to drop the inflatable in the water behind the boat and locate the best places to mount the davits.

First we blew it up, took just 50-60 pumps for each section in the sweltering sun.

Then it was time to mount the davits on the swim platform.

Finally, we got the davits mounted and hauled the thing up in place. We know it looks a little off-to-one-side, but that's what we had to work with considering that we have a ladder in the middle of the swim platform to contend with.

As always, John T. helped. Sorry about the "shadow lettering" on the inflatable's bottom.  We'll fix that shortly.

On Sunday, we polished off the rest of the list: Installed a new coil on the port engine (yes, it was leaking just like the starboard one was), fashioned a support for the new starboard muffler (slipped right in there), washed the inflatable (we'll do a more thorough job later on), put all the tools away so Frances doesn't have to contend with tool boxes everywhere and finally, put a few new waypoints in the GPS/Chartplotter.

Done.  We fired up the engines and they sounded fine. We're ready to go. Need to get a few days off from work and we're gone.