Tuesday, November 17, 2009

Sea Trial – 13 November

We had a brief (slightly more than an hour) sea trial yesterday, Friday the 13th.  On account of weather and conflicting schedules we could only squeeze in what our surveyor needed to check for engine vibration, fuel/oil leaks, noise level, etc.  The boat performed well and seems very solid.

The boatyard is on river and a bridge is a quarter mile up river from the yard and about four miles down river.  Neither bridge opens and their clearance is a smidge lower than our high point.

In addition, the river has a pretty good current at times, lots of commercial boat traffic and is less than a half mile wide in many spots.  All and all a not particularly convenient spot for pleasure cruising.  Despite that, we will have some more sea trials in order to test the sail rig and paravane deployment/retrieval.

Today, we hope to move on board (at least the master stateroom) and begin “living” on the boat. There is work still going on and we’ll leave most of the protecting materials intact for shipping so it isn’t quite like real life but we are looking forward to it.

Lots of things are on the "fix" list but things are coming off of it as well.  Marcia is great at pushing the SHM staff to help us get the boat done.

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