Cortez Cove Boatyard & Marina

There is a lot more work to be done... by me... than I had anticipated. I thought I could complete all the work on Monday. I washed the mainsail with fresh water in the morning when the air was still. I was able to keep it up until it had thoroughly dried. After which, I folded the sail and put it in its bag.

The staysail came off with no problems. However, a roll pin in the roller furler was coming out and prevented the swivel from coming down with the sail. Luckily, I had contacted a sailmaker to  take the jib and staysail for washing and inspection. Since he was also a rigger, he volunteered to go up the mast and  get the sail down.I was happy. I had my climbing gear out, but it was way too hot for me to be doing that.

I had to remove a lot of equipment from the decks. It doesn't seem like much, but it adds up on the clock: jerry cans for fresh water; jerry cans for diesel. Sheet blocks and their associated deck slapper cushions; sheets from the head sails.

Today, Teak Decking Systems came and made the templates for the new teak decks. Here, Richard is working on the starboard template.Just so there is no confusion... Those are not scratches on the side of the boat. It's the water being reflected. I did not beat up the boat that bad!

A lot of effort goes into making these templates. Every curve is measured and cut out for the template... Like the deck fill for the starboard water tank. I did not get that in the picture. Even the curvature around each stanchion. Somebody slap that photographer upside his head!

While Richard worked on the boat. I tried to stay out of his way. I grabbed my camera and took a walk-about. This first picture is of an island, which is just barely outside the navigable channel.

This picture is taken from a dock nearest the channel.The post on the far right is the right side of the channel as you leave. You can see the shallows go right up to the post. The far side of the channel is that post in the center of the picture. You can see the shoal just beyond and the rock pile sticking above the water. This is low tide. You can not see the rock pile at or near high tide.

I launched the tender today. I'm hoping to go for a row in the morning and take some more pictures.

A wonderful end to the day. This picture was taken at sunset from the dock in front of the boat. You can see the tender is not under the boom and if you look closely the butterfly hatch is open.

Oh, I just noticed, the life raft still has to come off as well as the anchor snubber line.