Life Beyond the Beaker

With Al’s Uncle Pete completing an epic two weeks of work on Cariad and me arriving during his second week we started to get through the job list. We have a long spreadsheet of jobs. We now have working electrics with the solar panels able to trickle charge the batteries, new alternator wired in and working, 3 lee cloths, sails are good with the main jib and storm jib getting check-in at InStiches, the hull was sanded back, epoxy added and two layers of antifoul added… There are so many other things like new anodes but now we are ready for the mast to go up and to get Cariad into the water. Hopefully, by the end of next week, we will be en route to Martinique to pick up our crew and pal Harry and also lots of yummy food. Fingers crossed that the job list stops getting longer and that it all comes together.  Grinding the rusty chain off the anchor chain! Safety first kids... Our hull made a beautiful abstract pattern...lots of expoxy use. "It's a process." A quote from Al ...