Sunday, January 22, 2012

Little by little we’re coming together on the boat. The windlass is now done. The halyard completed. So today we decided it was time to put up the sails then I can finish working on the sail cover for the main.

We got the main up, then the Yankee. Rourke came by to see how we were doing. After getting the Yankee up, we went over to his boat (Good Goose) to help him get his rudder back up and in place so he could drill the holes in it to reattach it to the boat. Sherry & Rourke did a real nice job building a new rudder…some exterior plywood, saber saw, Dremmel tool, some epoxy, paint, new holes drilled and it looked like it belonged. Nice job and Wayne got a new saw out of the whole process too. We’d loaned Rourke our 20 year old saber saw and it bit the dust while he tried using it. He felt obligated to replace it even though we told him not to bother that it was probably way past its death through. After telling us that he was just going to donate it to whoever needed one in the boatyard, we decided that welllllll okay we would need one and sheepishly accepted it (thank you sooo much Rourke).