Finally... some work done on the sailboat...

After about 2.5 weeks of unemployed leisureliness....

I awoke early (early for an unemployed girl), and started to task on the sailboat :)

well, mainly, the sailboat's dinghy....

The dinghy, Wren, was lifted out of the water by the diver that cleans the boat bottoms in the marina. he let me borrow some handy-dandy tools to clean the bottom, which had growth of close to two (2) inches!!! it turned out to be all soft growth, very lucky for me! perhaps the hard growth doesn't like the "cold" winter waters.... I definitely expected to see lots of barnacles since it'd been since January I had the little bugger out of the drink!!!

After long hours of scraping/scrubbing, she was almost as good as new! even some of the neighbors were inpressed with how well i cleaned up... the dinghy ;P

Then, the next task... getting the dinghy on board the sailboat to get her out of water!

I rigged up a pulley system with some extra pulleys i had stored that had come along with the boat when i bought her.

Using the spinnaker sheave and halyard, and my new fangled pulley system, i somehow hoisted that dinghy out of the water and onto the sailboat... Not sure it really fits though, because it completely covers the anchor locker. or, otherwise gets in the way of hoisting the mainsail... but, perhaps this can all be worked out... i'll definitely be working on the muscles though every time i hoist that dinghy on/off the boat! each time praying the spinnaker sheave can take the weight...

well, Russell, what do you think??? will this work??