OK, a little Beatles nostalgia for any of those old enough to remember.  We’ve now been on the hard and WORKING for eight days.

Ann’s new favorite job is painting the bowsprit!  Well not exactly.  She was pretty cranky this morning knowing that was her main job today.

We built a scaffold to get up to paint the bowsprit

Not the most fun job. It's a little scarier than it looks and very tedious. Almost takes more time to sand and tape than to just pain the thing. We also have to sand in between coats.

But, someone’s gotta do it.  For my part, I spent most of the day working on the detail work on the lazarette hatches.  After epoxying the plywood backing, I now have to put a couple pieces of teak trim back on (step one-epoxy), I’ve already taken out a couple seams that were leaking, have taped them and tomorrow will fill them with black polysulfide (also know as caulking-step two) and then need to finish the new plywood backing which will need a primer coat (step three) and several coats of polyurethane (steps four, five and maybe six).  Nothing’s easy.

Today’s other highlight was the Sunday Yachties BBQ.  A pot luck at the gazebo where the BBQ is.  Fun as usual to get together with a couple dozen other folks who are sailing the South Pacific.  We sat with a French couple, a Swiss couple and an American couple-who it turns out knew one of my good friends from University days.  Very small world.