Almost ready to get back in the water

ahhh....almost ready to return to the sea...or the creek, in the current location.

Latitudes under-belly is painted!  We got help with that this year and boy, oh boy, was it easier!  The blue paint tape still has to be removed from the waterline.

The jib has been put back up in anticipation of a lot of sailing - not motoring - this year

Smoke helped as only she can do.  She set up command post in her favorite spot, between the back of the cockpit and the opening hatch.  A lazy bath was in order apparently.  This was her last outing of the day - seems she discovered that she could jump from boat to boat easily (see picture number one and the close proximity of the boats).  I found her exploring the 5th boat away from Latitudes and had to scramble from boat to boat to chase her home.  She is in detention now.

With as much done as possible, Latitudes was put back into the sling of the travel lift (yes, it lifts the boat and then it travels to where ever...).  We headed back to the dock where the boats are put back into the water.  It's close to evening and the weather is turning gray.  Calling for rain for the next two days, but it will be 70 tomorrow!!!

A final bit of scrapping and painting on the bottom areas that were unreachable while Latitudes was on the stands.  Not a great way to hold up a heavy duty sander and buff off barnacles and old paint. This went on for over an hour.  It's 9 p.m. now and the men just finished painting the newly sanded areas.  That's Boogie- one of the "yard dogs" - helping out.  He's a sweetie.

And a new sunset!  See  that odd section of water about mid picture, coming in from the left?  That's not water....its land...  I took the picture at low tide.  This is the shallow that comes out from the marina dock and prevents us from going back into the water except at high tide.  We still can't sail over it, but at least the water around it is deep enough - just barely - for us to get back in and get to deeper water. We have to time our launch - hope to go back in around 1 tomorrow.