This is as much an update as a list of things I need to remember to put in the car!

I’m aiming to have everything done so that Rosie can be put in the water sometime next week. Stuff I need to take with me are:

• Antifoul
• Thinners
• Brushes, tray, roller
• Fenders
• Mooring lines
• Tiller!!!!
• keys!!
• re-attach life lines
• Polishing machine thingy
• Polishing compound bottle
• New fire-extinguishers
• New CO alarm
• Put the clock back (keep forgetting)
• Take the old gearbox home (need to remember the trolley, it’s flipping heavy)

Also bring home things that really don’t need to be there (Henry vac, big box of paint and glue, random tools, perhaps consolidate the many boxes of tools and random bits into one box)

The plan at the moment is to get the hull primed and painted Saturday, doing any other odd cleaning/rubbing jobs between the primer and antifoul coats. Have the yard lift her in next week sometime, step the mast and re-attach the standing rigging (can’t help do this myself as it’s mid-week and we have work/school). Then the following weekend bring the sails up and any other things I’ve forgotten this week and potter round to our long-term mooring.

I’m excited to say the least!

I’m being a bit over ambitious I think about what I can get fully done well in one day, but I am reasonably confident I can get the antifoul done and the fenders and tiller put back.

I must also remember to put the boom in the cabin rather than leave it on deck. Everything after that is a bonus if I get it done.

To summarise the big list of stuff that we have ticked off since being lifted out a million years ago, we have:

• Engine
  • New Injectors
  • New impellers and filters
  • New(ish) gearbox
• Deck
  • Pulpit foot welded back on! solid as a rock now
  • Made and fitted new washboards
• Inside
  • Repair failed bonding around the keels and replace one of the strengthening webs (will maybe do the other next year)
  • Repair and reinforce hull under engine compartment
  • Painted engine compartment
  • Painted interior bilges
  • Restored and lacquered the brass ships clock

Not long now!