After food and beer last night, we retired early and for once I got off to sleep quite quickly. A couple of visits to the heads did nothing for my ongoing sleep deficit and by around three I was wide awake anyway.
It being dark, it seemed an ideal time to check the navigation lights. I was chuffed to find that everything is working as it should.
I had a coffee to celebrate and then dozed until the Bosun awoke and breakfast followed shortly thereafter.
With the sin breaking through and the forecast early rain nowhere to be seen, conditions were perfect to slap on a second coat of antifoul.
Then it was the turn of the outboard leg which meant lifting the outboard out of the well. Whilst it was out, Glen gave the inside of the well a good slosh of a/f too.
Glen then cracked on with fitting the stanchion blocks and fairleads for the chute tack line whilst I ran a bead of sealant around each of the windows to try and cure, or at least minimise the leaks.
A general sorting out of car and boat ensued which took a while but ended with things a whole lot tidier and starting to look nearly ready for sea.
With the engine back where it belongs, the blanking cap installed on the log impeller housing and our personal gear offloaded, I was happy to call it a day quite early with Brigantia treaty to go back in the water and most of the remaining jobs needing the sails to be bent on
My friend Lisa had stopped by, having given us a very useful carrier bag full of fenders, and we hoofed out down onto the pontoon to give her new boat Artemis the once over. Bit of a bargain she's got there I reckon and its going to be fun to have somebody in our social circle with a similar sized boat to us.
After coffee and "while you're here" job avoidance (!), we hit the road wanting to make an early start homewards as we were both somewhat fatigued.
A very successful weekend and for once we got more done than I'd hoped rather than less. Hopefully, we'll go back in a week on Friday and be sailing by the end of that weekend
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