Out of the water!

But first - a follow up to my gifted bowl - I got a reply from the artist, Lesley, who said that this is the first Art Abandonment gift that she had done and was pleased that someone had found it.  Sweet!

We've made a lot of progress.  Well, maybe not in the bowels of the boat, but getting her ready to close for the winter.  The interior is a mess.

Smokey doesn't mind at all.  She is just pleased to be on a still boat that apparently is never going anywhere ever again.

We really have gotten a lot done.  The boat is winterized (that means no running water and the zillions of pink antifreeze jugs are gone), the dinghy outboard has been men-handled off of the boat to storage (that means it took two of them to wrestle it off of the boat and carry it to storage), the dinghy is ready to be lowered for storage, the boat was pressure washed in the rain, and she has been pulled and put on the hard.

Here is the travel lift, hauling Latitudes out of the water.

And here she is, sitting in her new home for the winter.  It has been - and is forecast to be - gray, cool, and misty.  I like the gray and cool, but sure could do without the wet of the misty.

 Because we are "up north", she will be shrink wrapped in a couple of weeks.  I won't be here to get a picture of that, but will have it when we return next spring.

SO, all seems to be moving along.  Car on Friday, leave on Saturday, home on Monday!