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Had a great sail until a storm popped up on RADAR. Had to head back in hoping to get back before it hit.

Nice sail with my daughter, my niece and my niece’s boyfriend. We had about 1 hour of good breeze and got to 5.3 knots.

Enjoyable day sailing with my wife.

Brought the boat from the boat yard to the marina. The boat was put in the water earlier in the week. I left work a couple hours early on Friday to install the new hand rails before moving the boat to the marina. It was a bit rainy when I was working on the hand rails, but had stopped by the time we left the boat yard.

(Friday 17-April-2015)

With the weather foretasted to be warm (low 70s) and dry for a couple days, I took Friday as a vacation day to bottom paint the boat.

I set up a video camera and taped myself in time lapse.

When we first painted the bottom in 2012, we painted the lower part of the transom expecting that is would be in the water. Turns out it is not. So I sanded the bottom paint off there in preparation of painting it with topside paint.

(Saturday 4-April-2015)
My brother and I removed the tarp and frame. Also put the boom back in place.

We are happy with the new frame design using 2 1/4″ PVC. It held up much better than the 3/4″ PVC we used the prior to winter seasons.

(21-Feb-2015)
It has been several weeks since the last check-up and in that time we have had about 24″ of snow and some very cold temperatures. Down to -8 degrees Fahrenheit WITHOUT the wind chill. The tarp and frame are doing very well and there was very little snow that worked its way inside the tarp.

While there we also made some final measurements for the new chain locker cover we are making.