Wheels

Much of this week was spent getting the bot onto to the trailer, but I did get the rudders fitted. This involved turning the boat round in the street and pulling the iron grate on the storm drains. The rudders were then lowered below street level and the sterns backed over the stocks. Abby managed to get a few pictures while helping to hold the rudders up, make sure the keel didn't hit the curbs and making sure Lily stayed in the yard. I will have to figure out how to get them off of her phone. Then,we safely returned things to the driveway for a few more week of work at home. The upside is the not is quite easy to handle on the trailer, just VERY Wide!

Safety First

So, I had bought all this orange paint. I had thought about doing a strip on the cabin side in typical Woods fashion, but there was some concern that the paint would not be color fast enough.  It turned out to be an ideal paint for working overhead, quite thick.  

At the same time I did certainly beat the boat with the homebuilt stick a bit here. You'd never see a production cat stock with orange on the underwing! Can you imagine the wifies questions of the salesman?  Why is that painted orange again? Reflects the UV radiation better?  If you follow one of the other cat build blogs, you'll note another builder recently painted 2 tiny orange stips on his 44' cats underwing.  Might as well just go for it. 

We also have noticed many of the higher latitude cruisers paint the top bit of the mast orange as well and it really increased your daytime visibility. And there was still plenty of paint. Anyone need a gallon of orange paint?

Front Porch

the nets have proved a bit difficult to setup, but successful with some careful work.  I certainly would not recommend this route for someone that is not good with knot work.  Starboard is strung and port is about 1/2 done at this stage.