The last few days have been a bit of a blur. We’re not launching until next week, the weather has been dismal and, although we could launch, the yard can not step the masts due to the winds.

I finished up servicing the seacocks, they’re finally done:

This sucker was frozen but works well now:

Galley sink drain finally connected. You may think this is trivial but this task took some time!

Popped the top on the fuel tank and pumped out three year old fuel, it was nasty!

The fuel transfer pump worked flawlessly. I stirred it up, pumped it out and poured in 16 gallons of fresh fuel. Reprimed the fuel system and the engine fired right up, purred like a kitten!!! That’s old fuel in the bucket:

In between the random rain I worked on the masts, finished up the AIS and WiFi antennas on the mizzen:

On the main, installed the tricolor mast light, wind transducer, and reinstalled the wind vane. Bob had already done the hard work:

Installed the spreaders on the main and rewired the lights:

Cut to the end…reinstalled all the rigging on both masts. Mizzen:

I am really happy we took the time to label each piece when we took it down. Although it was not overly complicated it was time consuming to reinstall and pin all the rigging. Finished and ready to step:

The local yard dog:

Will update more later this weekend!

…we have been pushed out a day due to weather. Unfortunately the weather looks dismal for most of the week, snow on Wednesday. We might have a window on Thursday, if that doesn’t work it looks like next week. Not what we wanted to hear but you can’t change the weather. Keep you posted.

We have had a very productive few days since returning from Florida. I went straight to the boat Friday and Tanya joined me Saturday morning. It was in the 30s Friday night but our little heater kept the boat warm.

We have been working on the mizzen top for some time, we finally finished it. We cleaned it up, painted, then I went to install the new sheaves and found they did not fit. The sheaves were not the dimension I ordered but it’s game time so we have to make it work.

We ground down the sheaves until they fit, actually they came out quite nice. With a little anti-seize on the pins and some sailkote on the face they spin quite nicely! All ready to install on the mast, we’re happy!

The seacocks were not bolted to the hull so we counter sunk, installed backing plates, sealed and bolted them in:

The seacocks got backing plates, proper sealant, outer surfaces coated with Lanocoat, anything threaded is coated with antiseize:

Once the seacocks were secure we installed the through hulls. We measured then trimmed, applied sealant and installed:

Then we applied 3m filler to the screws:

 We also installed the fairing block and through hull for the depth transducer. First we shaped the fairing block, then cleaned up the hull and did a dry fit to make sure everything mated properly.

 Then we sealed the through hull to the block. We used 5200 to seal everything together:

 That’s not frosting it’s 5200:

Cleaned up a bit, ready to reapply bottom paint and slide in the transducer:

After the through hulls, we moved on to wiring the mizzen mast. We had to rewire the light, reinstall the radar, and add AIS and WiFi antennas.

Radar reinstalled:

AIS and WiFi wiring ready to run. We’re using LMR 400 cable for the WiFi:

We’re using a 15db WiFi antenna about 30 inches long. I used a piece of aluminum bar stock bolted through with some heater hose to keep the antenna off the bolt heads, then stainless clamps to tie it together:

Routed the cable through the mast, added a grommet and some sealant:

 That’s it for now, back to the boat tomorrow!