Rain, yes it looks like it may rain a little. But that will not keep us from out planned
haul-out. Yesterday we placed the
sand bags on the beach, came up with a plan on how to position the boat, and
even practiced precision beaching.
Today, the real deal. As Courage deftly maneuvers us into position, I throw the rear
anchor in. Mother had placed a
rope on the top of the sand bags so we could see them even at high tide. As we came up on them we just needed to
keep the rope between the hulls. Such
a simple system, yet works great. We
stopped nearly exactly in position. Quickly Courage lowered the front anchor to my waiting arms.
This was way too easy.
The rain was now coming down pretty hard, and the wind was
picking up. As the wind blew, we
slowly drifted off our landing spot.
Quickly, a third anchor was readied. As I was busy setting up the camera, Courage put a
life-jacket on the anchor and started swimming it out. With three anchors holding us in place,
we were able to position ourselves within 6 inches of where we wanted to be. Slowly the water withdrew and Lil Explorers
was sitting in a nice bed of soft sand.
Once again we brought out the shovel and cleared out around the
dagger board. While inspecting the damage, Courage noticed that some of the
fiberglass behind the crash box was delaminating. We will have to haul out
someplace where we can spend a day or two repairing it. Not good. We had hoped
not to have to go to a yard. It is
so much nicer here at the islands. Tomorrow we will start heading back the
mainland to see about finding a yard that can handle a boat our size. When we get Internet I will upload some
pictures of the haul-out.
Goodnight,
Loyal
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