We arrived at the boat yard this morning at about 0800 and loaded some of the stuff that we had at the Yellow House.
We got things basically organized and I walked down to the office to pay our bill and to check and see when we would be relaunched. To my surprise we were scheduled to be the first boat moved.
The yard guys showed up right away and moved a small boat that was blocking our way out. Then they brought a lift trailer and wedged it in so that they could move our boat out so that the travel lift could move us to the water. We were so close to another boat, an IP named "Joule", that the yard guys had an extremely hard time getting the lift trailer in position. After about an hour of maneuvering the trailer, the lift pads were set and they pulled us out to the travel lift. I finished touching up the bottom paint and we went to the lift well and within 15 minutes we had the engine running, reefer running, and all systems were a go. Had a one hour trip from the yard to LePharBleu Marina and as soon as we were underway "Houston, we have a problem". We had some water intrusion into the headliner on the port side, and water started draining from the aft cabin overhead hatch. Lesley drove the boat while I collected the draining water in a large Tupperware container. Pretty sure that the leak was the result of us removing a plexiglass vent cover last year when we hauled out. Time will tell as we try to reseal each of the screws and hope to stop the water intrusion.
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My wife are in the early stages of doing what you guys are doing. We were in Oakland at the Sail Show last spring and had a chance to look at IP's. Are you still happy with the size of your boat? Any discernible difference between the 35 and the 350? How does she do in heavy weather? Easy to handle for the two of you?
ReplyDeleteThanks, Dave