Five Years!

Wow! Almost five years has past. Ill try to keep this short. My wife and I ended up moving way up to Northern BC where she could get a full time teaching job. The boat ended up with us but no work got done. We spent three years up north and a year ago moved back to Squamish. But had to leave the boat up north. So around a month ago we drove back north and visited some friends, picked up the boat, and now its parked out on the road in front of our place. I have managed to get a few things done over the last couple of weeks. It's good to be working on her again. Currently pricing out mast and boom/rigging.

update

When we returned from our honeymoon we had a couple of weeks left in August. In that couple of weeks we needed to pack our Apartment and move down the road to Vancouver. My wife is finishing up her teaching degree this year at UBC. We found a really great place in the Kitsilano area. A couple blocks from the beach and two dinghy yacht clubs near by plus it's close to UBC. We have a shared rooftop patio that overlooks English bay. Beautiful! The downside is that our Navigator is still in Squamish, now on a trailer in my other parents driveway. It's a nice driveway and she looks good there. I am missing being able to just head out the back door and put in some time working on her. She is almost done. The bowsprit just needs to be glued and bolted in place. The Center board needs to be lightly sanded to get rid of a few run offs from the last coating of epoxy, then it can be installed allowing me to finish painting the center case. Also the rubrails will get fastened and painted. The mast needs to be extended around 19 inches or so to get the boom high enough. Then the rigging and thats it. It sounds like a lot of work, but I don't think it should take that long. The biggest snag is we (my wife and I) have agreed that i need to start working again before buying the rigging and other odds and ends. The good news is I had a great interview yesterday and would actually be excited to work for this company. I will find out next week. So in reply to the many questions of when is the launch date, I'm not sure yet but will keep all ya'll posted.

p.s. it's been great to be in a neighborhood where any where you go along the waters edge you can see a marina or boats sailing by. It helps to keep the motivation going to get out there on the water.

Pictures as promised!

Back again!

Well a lot has happened in the last month. We spent a week at the cabin, Oyster Bay, Sunshine coast, BC. where Naomi and I got Married! It was an amazing time the weather was amazing and everything went perfectly. It was a really great party. I don't think it could have been better. From there we left for our honeymoon and flew down to Costa Rica where we spent three weeks on the beach with a few days inland in the Monteverde cloud forest. It was such a good time, very relaxing. It was hard to come back to our world of technology, internet, cell phones, cars etc. Not that all these things are bad, but I believe that is part of the allure of sailing as well is to get away from being so connected to all these things. Funny that I'm writing this while ON THE INTERNET. I guess its about finding the balance of it all.
We have been back for a week now and I have been taking advantage of not working to put in time working on the boat. We flipped her back over before we left so I was able to keep painting when we returned. Now the painting is all done! The center board got cut out and shaped. It is mostly fiberglassed, just waiting to buy some lead to put in the bottom then finish the fiberglassing. The rudder will be getting cut out soon and finished. The bowsprit is being thought about. Then its time for rigging and Final finishing details. So all that being said she is almost done, just standing at the edge of the tunnel looking out into the light!
Camera battery is dead, so I will add pictures later. Here is a couple taken with my phone of the centerboard before fiberglassing, oh and one from the wedding!