Refloating day

Well, she still floats! First, of course, she had to fly. Double up on the straps on Berkeley's travel lift, and she gently comes up off the stands. After a month out of the water I was a bit concerned about drying, but there was no 'creaking and groaning' at all as she lifted.

The only real problem was that the feet of some of the stands had sunk into the asphalt to the point that it needed crowbars to get them out and move them out of the way :-)

Here they are positioning the straps. Easier to do on the hard than putting them under her for the original lift, relying on old photos to make sure we didn't catch a strut or the drive shaft.

And carefully driving her down to the water.

Unfortunately, there was a big rush around with fenders and stuff, repositioning the straps to lift out the next boat (Another large wooden boat - the ketch "Lydia") and moving my boat out and Lydia in, and I didn't get any pictures of the actual splash.

Here she is back on her dock, though, all shiny white and with a clean bottom, fresh anti-fouling and all new zincs. I had hoped to paint the gunwhale between the rubbing strake and toe-rail black before splashing, but time ran out. Never mind, easy enough to do at the dock.