After some very long 16 hour days, Catalpa is in. It would have been very easy for me to delay a few more weeks but a deadline is a deadline! “Time and Tide waits for no man!” The heat on Tuesday was ridiculous. Every once in a while we’d have a thunder shower but it only seemed to increase the humidity.

Our Day started at around 4:50am. At first light I was out putting bottom paint on the hull. Lynne spent most of the morning loading the boat. Caffeine was a necessary part of the morning’s festivities. The truck was at our house at 8:00 am to load Catalpa up.

Davis and Tripp did a good job of getting her out of my yard. I built the shed around the boat so I wasn’t 100% sure they were going to fit the boat out. I had a chainsaw handy. It was a tight squeeze due to the grade of the land but eventually she was out of the shed and on her way to the waterfront.

They picked Catalpa up with a big crane and put her into the water.

The rest of my day was spent rigging and sorting through some of the stuff in the cabin. Later in the day we motored around the harbor to make sure our old Diesel was still chugging away. Eventually we made it up river to our mooring.

Next- a few days of well deserved sleep!