Slow Progress

Afraid work has taken rather too much time to progress Olive for some time.Made some headway with electrics and installed a couple of extra lights so now its easy to read in the bunks.

Olive is out of the water at the moment and we intend to get the hull polished and antifouled next week. We did try to get someone to do the antifouling for us to save time but the estimate was £900 which was a bit too much for us - so its brushes and rollers to the fore.

Something of a performance having the old girl lifted, The boat lift has one fixed cross member and one moving cross member. Normally with a sloop you drop the backstay and reverse into the dock. But with Olive being a ketch that wasn't going to work so some debate about removing forestays and going in ahead. After measuring and a bit of head scratching the tabernacle was judged substantial enough and we went in ahead - with no problems. Getting out astern may be another story, but we shall see.