Stick a fork in it, it’s done.
Clearly the boat will not be ready to take to Boston the first weekend in May to see the Volvo Ocean Race in port events; we’ll be doing well to have all my limbs working and the caulking done by then.
Not to be too much of a downer, but I’m being realistic here. At least by now the raised areas of the deck and dodger are caulked, but they do need the excess teak scraped off then need to be sanded. It’s progress, just not enough progress. Unfortunately it is raining now, which means the cover is likely letting water on to the area I was planning to sand tomorrow. Hopefully we will begin caulking the lower deck by the weekend if the rain departs Wednesday as predicted.
On the plus side we’ve got some other cool trips in the making, including a return to Provincetown – this time in the company of some friend’s boats which should be fun. We’ve caught up with people but we’ve never cruised en mass with friends from place to place.
There may be another ten day jaunt to the Cape & Islands in the works for our other vacation but that remains to be seen.
In the mean time if anyone has two spots on an observer boat for the in port VOR races in May, drop me a comment!
