Great Day in the Morning!

It was a hot, bright blue, clear day when we did our sea trial with the Yanmar engineer, Charlie, Bob Lamire of Applied Marine (FJ Propeller) who did the install, and our good cruising friend Gabriel Rivera of Good Timing. It went, pardon the pun, swimmingly. Everything worked to every ones satisfaction and Charlie signed off on the installation. Kuhela did 8.5 knots at 3,100 RPM and cruised along at 7.5 knots at 2,500 RPM, her cruising RPM's. After 8 weeks of twists and turns, wet and dry, ups and downs we have a beautiful renovated home with a new propulsion system that should keep us moving from one $1 million view to another in comfort and style. But, we spent our children's inheritance and a little more to "get 'er done".

Putting everything back that was taken off for the painting has been a hard, hot job here at dock side. We are having an insurance survey in the middle of all this which has driven Linda up a tree trying to clean and put everything away. We have two cabins full of seat foam which will be shortly turned into cushions and mattresses. This hasn't made the "putting away" easy at all. The third is full of projects: new dingy windlass set up; new TV dish; flooring; shelving; new cockpit enclosure; etc. But, she did a yeoman's job and "got 'er done".

Linda and I are well and looking forward to getting back to our haunt, Culebra, and our cruising neighbors. We'll be there making minor repairs and minor improvements thru October when we plan to start our trip with five other boats to Australia via the Panama Canal and the South Pacific some time in late February next year: the next Great Adventure. We will be back to central Florida before we leave to say good by and do our annual doctor and dentist visits.

More later with pictures...

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