We will be leaving in a few days (depending on the weather) and so we thought it would probably be a good idea to do a dry run of putting up the mail. The sails are only a couple of years old but you can tell that they weren’t that loved on. We found a small pencil size hole in the mail which we’ll pop a bit of tape on but the stitching is all in good nick. Sail went up smooth with just a few lazy jack snags. She’s not that easy to reef down and the smallest reef would still be a little scary in high winds.
With all the bulk disappearing off the deck the girls are discovering a new playground. I will be even more fun when the decks are washed and metal shavings removed.
Check out our new flooring. It’s GREAT! It’s made of woven vinyl with a rubber backing. People mainly use it for around pools and gyms. Stain resistant, mildew and mold resistant (so they say). We’ll see if it’s kids resistant! Little wags has yet to test it out with a big puddle of pee but grease comes off easy. Some days I wonder who's messier men or kids! I swear I spend my days cleaning up after everyone and getting no work done.
I’m waiting on Chris Parker to email me back on a good weather window down to Marsh Harbour. Carl thinks Tuesday and I think Thursday, we’ll see who’s closest to the “expert”. We are far from ready but we are sick of waiting around and have a bunch of workers on the boat everyday. Carl will install the watermaker and we’ll call it done. Today we have 2 carpenters finishing off trim work, Sally with Nichols Nautical Stiches installing the last of the canvas work and Matt and Wes being Carl’s slave. Over the weekend and Monday we’ll finalize provisioning and start stowing the boat. We never got around to putting the Kiwi Grip paint on the decks so we’ll have to be oober careful when underway. I already fell arse over head today because the girls spilt half a bottle of dishwashing detergent on the decks, we have enough room to swing a horse so luckily I didn’t end up with a cleat up my butt. Baby wouldn’t like no butt cleats!
