Back in the Water - ahhhhh!

As of Friday June 23 at 2:00 pm est, LaLeLu is back in her slip at Harbor Town. I brought my camera, but was so excited that I forgot to take pictures. With any luck, it will be 2 years until her next haul out. Yea for us!

Baby's got new shoes

LaLeLu finally has her bottom paint. Drive train is scheduled to go in June 20th. It is almost time to start writing checks for our yard bills. (Since writing checks means LaLeLu's freedom from the yard, we are actually excited to do that). She looks so pretty. I painted the insides of the dorades 'Safety Red.' It matches our red halyards and looks really cool. Chris and I spent two days stripping/waxing & rewaxing her. Yesterday I crawled on my belly through the engine room and vacuumed and 'Spray-Nine'd' everything. There were a lot of metal shavings in there from when Chris sawed out that drive shaft. Looking at it now, you wouldn't even know we had a break down - Well, except the missing drive train might tip you off.

Some Assembly Required

Well most of our parts have arrived. We are just waiting on the new prop and the flixible coupler. With the glass work done, we now have enough parts that the mechanic can begin putting it all back together. We are waiting for a bid before we give "Joe" the green light to start the reassembly process. Above is a picture that shows the finished glass work.

The new time line is to have the drive train installed within 10 days, then bottom paint. Hopefully she will be back in the water in 2 weeks????????