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Today, Wednesday, May 13, 2009, I was able to get up to the marina to work on the final parts of the WhimSea bottom prep. Matt was going to take care of the rudder himself, but I thought it would make sense to be up there too and do some sanding and stuff. Because we were planning on having Matt working on this stuff he took the paint and some extension cords. As I was prepping, I plugged in one cord, that was way short, like a 75 footer, then I put in a 25 footer and ended up about 2 1/2 feet short. I had a splitter that I had to hunt around for on the boat and after getting that plugged in ended up with about 10 extra feet. Just as I was about to plug the whole shebang in, Matt showed up. I didn't know whether to curse or what.

Matt shaped up the leading edge while I worked a bit more on getting some of the old paint smoothed out. While this was going on Jerry finished waxing the hull and it looked spectacular! I'm definitely groovin' on this new wax recommended by Scott.

After lunch the marina folks were able to pick her up in the lift and gave us a bit of time to do some sanding and finish the painting. We got 9 of the 10 pad spots painted before running out of paint. I did have another can but am figuring on returning it to Marine General. The effort is such a huge improvement that I didn't see the need for that last $60.00.

I must confess, in the seven seasons that we've had WhimSea, I've never seen her splashed nor taken out. The guys at the marina did such an awesome job, Thank you Joey!! We got the engine commissioned and fired her right off. Matt and I went out into the lake a bit since everything was going so well, we got to be at her first curtsey to Neptune of the season.

Karen and I are heading up probably Saturday morning to put her insides to rights, they are all ahoo for her long winter's nap yet. I'm thinking we'll go out and do a bit of sailing on Saturday and Sunday.

Fair winds!!!

Troy