Saturday, 7 November 2015 - I had an enjoyable day on the boat. I got some things put away that I brought from the trailer, replaced the lifting strap for one of my outboard dinghy motors that had fallen into disrepair and went to the rechristening of Marcus Libkind's boat Angerona to Carpe Ventum (Seize the Wind), or is it Seize the Breeze. I'm better at Spanish than I am at Latin, but that's not saying very much. Champagne and a speech to the gods of the wind and seas and a toast to fair winds and following seas for the future of the "new" boat. He had a small gathering of friends and family, and we all wish him well. He'll be taking off for the Caribbean in about a week.
                 Wow! Six o'clock and it's already dark.

Sunday, 8 November - Much of today was spent putting things away or out of the way so I can take the boat to the repair facility tomorrow.

Monday, 9 November - I was up early in order to get the boat out of the slip before the wind picked up too much. With Marcus's help, I was able to slide right out and down the river to Snead Island Boat Works to have work done on the boat. I got there and docked about 9:30am, however, about all they got done the first day was power wash the hull to get all the scum, barnacles and clams off, then, polished the propeller. They also drove a broken bolt out of the gudgeon plate and determined that it was indeed stainless steel. The gudgeon plate itself is bronze, so the bolts through it should be too. I'll have them replace all eight with bronze. In the dry, normal world, that mixture of mismatched metals wouldn't make any difference, but in salt water, the difference causes one of the metals to disintegrate; in this case, the stainless steel.
                At about 5pm, a storm approached, so I decided to head back the five miles to the motorhome on my bicycle, which I had brought with me on the boat. Needless to say, I couldn't outrun the storm, and even though it was only sprinkling, I got pretty wet on the way back. Marcus had left a message on my phone, so I called him to see what he wanted and it was an invitation to dinner on his boat, so I joined him at 6:30 and had a great dinner and conversation.

Tuesday, 10 November - I had locked up the boat before I left yesterday, so I felt I needed to get back to it early so the workers could get started on it. I arrived at 8am and it's now 3:00pm. They haven't touched it yet today. I guess they're on "island time", too.
                Well, they really are on island time. The first worker showed up at my boat at 4:12 and quit at 4:34!

Wednesday, 11 November - Today seems to be working out to be a much better day for the boat than yesterday. When I got here this morning at 8am, one worker gotten started at 7:30, but was having trouble getting the stainless steel 1 1/2" nuts that came off of it back on. Apparently, the stainless steel nuts gaul on the stainless shaft, so we're going to replace them with bronze. Next, they moved to the anchor locker and are replacing all eight bolts that hold the anchor billboard or cat in place. Two bolts that I knew about were already broken and others' heads twisted off as they were removed. It isn't good that they broke, but it is good that we checked. They put a small worker on the job and, after removing the separator in the anchor locker, he can get his whole body into the space. They are also going to take a look at the bolts in the stem while he's in the chain locker. We may also replace some or all of those.
                While they were working on that, I got back on the swim platform and removed the words, "Tucson, AZ - USA" from the transom in preparation to change the hailing port to "Salt Lake City, UT - USA". I'm sure people will inevitably ask, "How did you sail all the way from there? I didn't know Utah is on the ocean." Later I decided that this would be a good time to start inventorying the contents of the boat and filling it the database that I created awhile ago for this purpose. I certainly don't have everything in its final place, but I'm tired of wasting time looking for items that I know I have onboard. The database will certainly help that.
                As the afternoon passed, the two men working on the bolts did, indeed, start working on the bolts on the stem and as they tried to remove each one, the head broke off, so all are being replaced. They finished all but one.
                I left the boat just as dark set in. I didn't want to have to back the motorhome and trailer around a corner in the dark.

I'd better get this posted to my site. Have a great evening.