Well, the past three days have been really busy. The mast has come down, the boat made road worthy and then put on a truck and hauled to its new, indoor, home. On Monday after some last minute phone calls we got a crane to come take the mast down at 2pm. So we rushed to get it ready to come down. The wind instruments were taken down and everything was double checked. The mast came out and down without any problems. It only took about 2 hours with an additional 3 to clear the mast of the rigging to get it ready to go on the truck.
Next was getting the boat on the truck with the mast and getting it safely to the next boat yard. The truck came at 8am the next day and they already had the boat lined up on the trailer when I arrived at 8:05am. It took about an hour and half to get the pads in place and everything strapped down. I followed the truck, who might have forgot he had a boat with him as he was speeding down just about every road we went down. I guess he was in a rush to get to the next job. The trailer bowed down under the weight of the boat and scrapped the ground a few times. The truck driver didn’t seem phased and just powered through it, tearing up some grass here or relocating dirt down the high way. While following my boat the only thing that fell off was a piece of Plexiglas on one of the hatches that I forgot was not fastened down. No big deal just have to cut a new one…
Once at the new place, they had the lift already set up and ready to receive. It came off the truck and was set and done by 11:3o. I went and grabbed some lunch and started to clean it out. I took out most everything from the interior and got ready for the work to begin.
The next day I managed to get just about all of the deck fitting off, with the exception of the few things in the stern. Tomorrow the old teak decks start to come off!
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