In the yard.....

In the yard, a never ending story...

We thought that today (January, 14, 2019) will be the last day in the yard, I mean they yard told us last week that tomorrow, Tuesday, January 15, the boat will be back in the water..

Well, I was wrong (again). At noon today, after a visit in the morning to the yard, I found out that the boat is now scheduled for Thursday (January 17).
OK, lets rewind...

The boat went to the yard to be worked on in the first week of November (2018). The items to be worked on, were very limited.
Bottom paint; some fiberglass work; new seal in one of the sail drives; new sanitary (head) hoses; and a Dyna plate. Basically, only items that the boat needs to be worked on while out of the water.
We even got an estimate of how much it will cost.

From that day on - surprise after surprise. Not that new issues were found (except one), but as to, how long the work takes and how many delays in actually doing the work and....and... and ....
The gap between estimated cost and actual cost.

In the beginning (being Minnesota nice)  we tried not to call / email the yard every day. I mean they are working on my boat right? They know that it needs to be in the water on the first week of December (2018, yes 2018), right?

Very quickly we learned that other boats are at higher priority, especially those owners that wanted the boats in the water for the holidays.

We where in MN, far away, (and as the saying goes - far from the eye, far from the heart). So, we started calling  / emailing every day.
And ... we also heard that the weather is not good, the parts are missing, the....
You call and you hear - we are working, it is moving ahead, almost done, for sure next week,,, next week,,, next week...

Not all bad, there are some good news too. We got approval from the yard, and we managed to put the boat new name on it.

And last week, we manage to replace the dinghy too. That was great. To change the dinghy while the boat is in the yard is much easier than to change it when the boat is in the water. The yard was very helpful in taking our dinghy, and very quickly replace it with the original that was on the boat.

So now, with a cost (still not final) that is close to three (yes three) times the original estimate, we are waiting for Thursday with hope that our boat will finally be in the water  - Stay tuned