We are just a motorboat!
The last few days have been busy turning our motorsailor into a motorboat!
We docked a little over a week ago and promptly starting working on the making the boat a mess! Zander spent the week making cradles for the mast and getting all the wires disconnected; and I started a new job – taking me away from Guildive for a few days. Thursday we woke up early and got to the boat to finish the last minute work needed to be done before the boom truck came. Once the crane arrived and the straps were set it took about 2 hours to get the masts out and settled on their stands – all went as well as we could have hoped! The last two days we have spend down-rigging both masts and making sure all was WELL labeled. The masts themselves weighed total of about 1000 lbs and just the shrouds were about 400 lbs so to get all that weight off in one day was pretty good.
Here are some pictures of taking the masts out….
Zander attaching the lifting strap for the Main
Up they go...
The crane driver, Dick, doing a great job!
so far so good...
All down!
Now a few big holes