Back in the water! 🌊

With a spiffy new decal

Compared with last time, where we spent three hours doing only one thing, about a million things happened in three hours this time! We finished all the must-dos before putting her back in the water, or launching as we say; suddenly found ourselves back in water and successfully navigated the harbor with only a moderately aggressive kiss of the dock; retrieved our sails; and did lots of cleaning and prepping to sail to our new harbor tomorrow.

Namely, we:

• added a second coat of beautiful shiny yellow paint to the rudder

• installed beautiful decals designed by Simon (the fact that the bird is upside down won’t be visible from a moving horse haha)

• Oiled the wood that the motor is attached to

• Slapped some antifouling on the parts of the keel that were resting on the stand so didn’t get painted earlier

And then we were back in the water, the crane guys were casting us free and we had to remember how to do things like get a line around a mooring and prevent the boat from running into the dock upon mooring. Some adrenaline was released! The tractor and crane operation is wild and efficient. I asked the operator if he had a boat and he said “Nah I see boats and their problems all day.” 🤣

Then we picked up our sails from winter storage and repair at the delightful Gransegel, put the back stay back on after the crane, scrubbed the deck and cockpit, washed the canvas covers for the sails and kapellet, and tried to waterproof them but ran out of spray 1/3 thru 😢 . Will have to buy more spray and finish that later!