by: Bill
Water under the hulls....
Well, most of you are wondering where we are and why there haven't been any updates to the blog. Well, it has been taking a little longer than expected to get our "new" boat out of the Southern Bahamas and up to the states. We arrived in George Town, Exumas on the night of the 6th. We had her on a mooring and were planning to leave her there for the hurricane season (until the end of October) but changed our minds because there are lots of things we want to do with her this summer, and besides, she's our house now. After about two days of cleaning up the mold (from the hot humid environment) and familiarizing and testing all the systems we were almost ready to leave. One thing left, scrub the bottom. The entire bottom looked like it had grown hair the size of egg noodles as well as scabs. Not sure if you know how long this takes but imagine two 44' long, 5' wide objects and having to scrape them using a paint scraper and scrub brush. Now imagine doing it all under water. Well, we moved the boat to the calmest place with a sandy bottom that we could find in Elizabeth Harbor, dropped the anchor and jumped in the water. Several hours later Catherine and I had the bottom looking clean shaven. We were now both exhausted and it was late in early evening so we found a place to anchor for the night and planned to leave in the morning.
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