It Be Summer!!!!!! > > >Or It Will Be Today!!!!!!

SHIP'S LOG:

I went up to ABISHAG yesterday to be there when the welding job got done. But by the time I had gotten there it was already completed! And a fine job too! That left me with the task of re-attaching the the port-side davit and the connecting bar that kept the two davits in alignment.  A simple task , really, but one that was made more difficult because I had a case of the "dropsies." I kept dropping the parts parts that connected the davit to the newly welded stanchion overboard. Thank goodness that I was on dry land though it did necessitate my climbing down to retrieve them and then climb back up to try and reassemble them in place. Well, it was good exercise if nothing else and now, everything is back in place.

I also took the time to set the cockpit cushions back in place and clear the deck of the items that didn't need to be there anymore. I got out all of the dock lines and set them in the cockpit. As I was doing this, I noticed that the hatch to "the In-Law apartment" was undone and lifting it up I saw that the batteries had been re-installed. This surprised me as I had been told that this wouldn't be done until the boat was launched, being much a much easier ask to be done at that "equal level" rather than hauling them up the ladder and into the boat.  But I am glad it was done as it gave me the opportunity to re-store all the items that had been taken out of that locker.  . .  .today! With that, ABISHAG was ready for launching and  when the keel touches water,  IT IS SUMMERTIME!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I will probably hang for a couple of days to give myself the opportunity to check out all the systems and make sure everything works as it should. It will also give me the opportunity to load the boat with all the stuff that got taken off for the winter. I am really looking forward to that as it is a real pain in the butt hauling all that stuff around in my car, to say nothing of the various garages throughout eastern Connecticut that contain items from the boat that people were kind enough to let me store so that I wouldn't have to truck around with me. So by next week I should be home! In New London! On my TYC Mooring! On ABISHAG!