The great unveiling…

Oh Yeah! Looking good!

Charisma is definitely one happy girl with her new coat of paint. It's a little um, "brighter" than I had planned, but what the heck.

We also put on the new bobstay fitting (the pic didn’t turn out, I’ll post tomorrow) and I finished the laz hatch project and installed the hatches back in the cockpit.

Was also nice to see our friends Mark and Ann from Blue Rodeo who dropped by Charisma this morning.  They are back from the States and getting ready to do some boat projects of their own.  Great to see them back!

The inside with the new plywood backing. Compare this to the pic a week or so ago...

So there we are.  Now down the home stretch with the drudgery of stripping the rail with the heat gun yet to go.  But it’s kind of a zen-like experience.  You really get into a groove and before you know it you’ve been doing it for hours.  Then…hours and hours of varnishing.   Whoo Hooo (not).

We’re going for dinner to John and Lisa’s (Orcinius) tonight.  Yay!