There's Got To Be A Morning After...

Work that has slowly progressed so far has been to finish putting in all of the fittings, start putting in the stanchions for the lifelines that go around the perimeter and install the front hatch. We also installed the rubber 'rub rails' around the perimeter of the hull and bolted them into place with the bronze corner moldings we polished up. Now you can see why I placed the gold lettering a bit low on the navy blue stripe.

This picture shows the hatch is now installed. Next, I will be installing a waterproof wiring fitting next to the tabernacle that I'm going to use to connect up the mast lights to the cabin. I'll have a better picture after it is installed.

Here is the work area on the port side of the sailboat which shows the table and all of the supplies I have been using to get Udara Tanda 'ship-shape'.

The bow rail has been installed, mainly to 'plant' the bases and get a measurement for the new lifelines. The 12 foot long aluminum tubing I ordered so I could bend up a replacement for the worn out bow rail finally arrived, and I ordered another one to make up the stern rail too.

Here is Jaime, up bright and early, working on her science homework. Her task was to spend 15 minutes each day for a week and observe the environment around her, then take notes. She was quite surprised to see all of the activity from the wide array of critters we have in our yard. She definitely had plenty of variety to write about every day. And talk about fascinated with lizards... she hasn't been able to catch one yet, so every once in a while I'll catch one of the literally hundreds of lizards in the yard and hand it to her. She can't seem to get enough of playing with them, then putting them back where I found them...