Greetings It has been a wihile since my last log entry. Diamond Girl has been in the boat yard the last 4 days getting a new coat of bottom paint. For those non sailers out there, bottom paint is applied to the bottom of the boat to keep the little critters from making the bottom their home. The water is warm here and they grow fast, just like weeds in your garden. First you get slime, then algae, then hard worms and finail the barnacles start to grow. With no bottom paint this process takes less than a week and all of these things are hard to get off, especially the barnacles. With the bottom paint, you have to clean the bottom every 4 to 6 weeks. To clean it, you swim under the boat and rub the bottom with a soft cloth or a brush. More on that in a future log entry. The entire process from taking the boat out with the lift, to cleaning, to sanding, to repainting to splashing the boat back in the water took 4 days. We had the bottom painted in San Diego just before we left but when we had it cleaned down here, barnacles were already growing on the new paint. I spoke with the paint company and they felt this was a problem with the paint and agreeded to cover the cost of repainting the bottom. So we have one more thing off our "to do" list.