FINAL WORK WEEKEND

Well this was our last work weekend. Our launch is booked for Tuesday June 2nd   Dan worked all weekend, and hopefully got everything accomplished. 

He set up our ropes and bumpers for launch, so that's all set.  Then we went to the marine and set up our dock for our arrival, then headed home. 

 We will go back out with all the last minute stuff, bright and early Tuesday morning for our launch.  

 Our Sea-Enna will be so happy to see her summer home, for the first time this year.  


I TOO, WILL BE GLAD WHEN THUNDERBIRD IS LAUNCHED AND WE ARE LIVING ON BOARD AGAIN

FAMILY DINNER

Tonight we had a lovely evening with our oldest son Jim and his family.  

 

We don't get a chance to spend much time together with us down in Texas for half the year, then out at the lake for a lot of the summer.  So we got together for dinner, before we launch on Tuesday.   

It was nice to have an evening together and I was shocked when each of my grandsons walked in.  Our Matthew who was so proud, 3 years ago, at his 16th birthday that he was finally a bit taller than his older brother Alex.  He is now towering over us all.  And Alex is towering over me as well.  

But then they are grown men now, not my young grandsons.  I hope they will all get a chance to come out for a visit to the boat this summer.  

HOPEFULLY, WE'LL SEE YOU IN AUGUST

 

OUR LAUNCH DATE IS SET

We have picked our launch date,  and we have just booked it with Barb.  We are going to "Splash" on June 2nd.  We prefer to launch during the week with less hassle, than with all the hectic activity around Gimli harbour on the weekend.  

I hope all our chores get completed as planned by that date.  It's looking like we are on track, but you never know when something will crop up.  

THE COUNTDOWN IS ON

ANOTHER WORK WEEKEND UNDER OUR BELTS

We dropped Sea-Enna off at Tracy Elizabeth's, and got out to the hangar late on Friday.  Too late to get any work done, but we got settled in and got unpacked, ready to start to work on Saturday morning. 

 I was very pleased with the job Ken did on the hull, as I hadn't seen it since it was done.  The red colour is not as bright as I would like, but at least it's reddish. 

 It was a very productive weekend.  Dan got a lot accomplished.  Gouging, sanding, epoying, all around general maintenance for an old boat.  

He even got some finish painting done on the swim platform.  Next weekend all the repairs he did this weekend should be ready for finish paint. Next weekend will be our final work weekend and we will launch the following week.  


SO WE ARE DOWN TO THE SHORT LIST.  







 

LET'S GET BACK AT IT - WEEKEND 3

Nothing got accomplished last weekend, so we are now going to be playing catch up.  

Dan has some scraping, sanding and painting to do on the bow.  These are all chores that are time consuming.  

We are also hoping to decide on, and book our launch while out at the hangar this weekend.  


WE WILL SEE WHAT WE GET ACCOMPLISHED

 

THIS WEEKEND WAS DIFFERENT THAN WE THOUGHT

We stayed in town for our daughter Wendy's birthday this Saturday.  

We had a wonderful time at a Private Party at a Chinese Buffet.  

But our plans to go out and work on the boat on Sunday and Monday, were scuttled as we were informed that the hangar is closed on Mondays.We feel that there is no sense driving all the way out there and getting all set up to work, for just a few hours, then putting everything away again and driving all the way home, is just not worth it.  

Now that I see the horrible weather that hit that area I'm kinda glad we stayed home.  So we will put a full weekend in next weekend and see how far we get.  Hopefully we will be able to get close enough to book our launch date.  

I'M ANXIOUS TO GET THE BOAT INTO THE WATER, BUT NOT IN THE SNOW

ANOTHER BUSY WEEKEND COMING UP

This coming weekend is the May-long and normally we would be going out to the boat to work the whole four day weekend away, readying the boat for launch.  

But this year the long weekend happens to be a little early and falls on my daughter Wendy's 50th Birthday and her husband and kids are throwing a big party for her, that we will be attending on Saturday night. 

I guess we will try to get out to work on the boat on Sunday and Monday.  We don't have that much left to do and we do have one more weekend after that before we head out that door to the harbour.  

 THE TODO LISTS ARE GETTING SHORTER