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Showing posts with label Gypsy Rose Refurbish. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Gypsy Rose Refurbish. Show all posts
Yes I'm smiling. It's launch day! And we got her in the water in June!!!
This is what is looked like when we arrived at the marina.
Gray skies, thunder and lightening in the distance. It might not be the ideal time to raise the mast, but I'm ready and have been waiting too long, for this day.
This is my friend Matt. He's a newbie sailor and came to help. Matt has a boat of his own, that he is starting to re-do.
Every boat is a little bit different, but basically has similar rigging, whether it's a 21 footer like Gypsy Rose or a 100 footer.
Shipping the rudder.
Here we are in the water motoring to the slip, where we will set the sails. Because, it's raining off and on and it's her first time out, I'm only going to set the mainsail, today.
Some of you might be wondering why Connie's not here. She is, she's behind the camera.
Today we stayed in the little cove by the marina, hopefully on the 4th the weather will be great and Connie and I can raise the jib and get out and explore more of the lake, .
This is way more fun than it looks. I had never sailed her before and was delighted to find that she handles like a proper yacht.
Here we are coming back into the slip to change passengers.
This is Matt's family, they were excited to take their first sail, ever. Connie stayed on shore to set the picnic table for lunch and take all these photos.
This is a photo of the Key Lime cheese cake that Acashia, Matt's wife brought to the picnic.
We have had four months of sanding, scraping, rebuilding, repairing, painting, oiling wood, varnishing, polishing brass, fiber-glassing, replacing parts and rigging, and cleaning. Now, It's time to set the mast and put her in the water.
Are we happy? You Bet!
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Some of you asked for more photos . . . There are still a lot of little jobs to do. Finishing up the port hole windows & Replacing all the rigging (ropes to all you non-sailors). Sailboats have what seems like miles of different ropes and each one has a job to do. This boat has been sitting for so long that all of her's were rotten. We're almost on the water. Hopefully my next post will be lake photos.
She is still in the driveway but not for long. We said we would launch her in June and June has one more weekend.
We are so close to being ready that we have sailing fever. Be sure and come back to see my launch day post, but in the meantime, leave a comment and tell me what you think.
CABIN HATCH BEFORE
CABIN HATCH AFTER Have a great day & Smooth Sailing, Steve
We spent a lot of time this week . . . working on Gypsy Rose. She is getting prettier every day.
Today I built these wooden boxes and reinforced beams so we could jack her up off the trailer.
I wanted to get her jacked up enough to attach a new cable to her keel, but we couldn't jack her up quite high enough and still feel safe. So, I'm going through the cabin to attach it.
We did get started painting the bottom. After scraping the keel to remove barnacles and rust, from her days in salt water.
Well, it doesn't look like we'll have her in the water by the first of June . . . but we are still optimistic about sailing before the end of the month. For all my followers that are watching her progress, I just want to say thank you. It is nice being able to share this project with you, and I enjoy reading your comments. Have a great weekend . . . I think that we are going to check out the new Star Trek Movie. I've been a Star Trek fan since the first TV shows. My sister and I used to watch then together as kids :)
