In the water and on the boat

We are on the boat...
That's progress in today's uncertain world.
We moved to the boat last week, after spending 3 weeks in a hotel in Florida.
We came back to Florida with anticipation that the mast will be coming that week, however, the mast is still not on the boat. (spoiler - if all goes well, early next week the mast will be here).

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OK - I started writing the blog on June 15, and today is August 11.  I neglected my duties (....) and did not update the blog for toooo long.

We were / are extremely busy working on the boat.

In the last few months, we moved to the boat, moved all our belongings from the storage unit to the boat (yes the boat is fully (!!!) loaded), we installed the mast (twice), all the lifelines, safety nets, trampoline, electronics, weather enclosure, etc. etc. etc.

And now we even have guests already on board, our daughter and her tow kids are here for the next two weeks.

So, lets start from the beginning...

We moved to the boat on the first week in June. The boat was in the water in the boat yard, not completely done or ready, but staying on the boat was better than staying in a hotel especially in the Covid-19 world.

Worked continue on the boat, and in mid June the mast arrived and installed. Than we discovered that the mast was not installed with a water "preventer" - i.e. a pipe that prevent the rain water from the mast coming in to the boat. That required another removal of the mast and re-installing it again after a pipe was installed.

Through that, the lifelines were installed and the trampoline in the bow. 

We tested all the systems and a power failure in the marina, helped us find out that the batteries did not survived hurricane Dorian. We tested more and discovered that the generator is sized too as a result of Dorian, and a new one was ordered.

Once the batteries were replaced and a new generator was installed we moved the boat to her designated slip in the marina itself and life started to look almost, almost normal again.

And as life goes, we started tracking tropical wave, that turn to a depression, to a tropical storm and than hurricane Isaias. We moved the boat in the marina to a better location, removed some sails, ties the others, and went through all the preparations for a hurricane hit.

We were extremely stressed. 

Isaias passed 17 miles east of us exactly 11 months to the day from hurricane Dorian. not a happy thought...

The outcome was much much better.

We had some rain, some winds, (we measured 55 kts ) but over all we fared extremely well thanks G-D, and had the great fortune to untie all the sails and move the boat back to her slip.

BTW we had the opportunity to check the generator through the storm as we run it during the storm as we disconnected the power from shore. It worked as expected.

We are waiting our sea trial - hopefully later on this week or early next week, and some more work on the boat to be completed to bring her back to her full glory.

Updates (hopefully) later on this week or next week.