OK so I am sitting here with a nice RomenCoke as we call them ready to fill you in all the gory details of the splash! So when we bought Hanna we already knew we were screwed taking on a 75 year old lady that needed help but my hold out was the mid 90's Yanmar diesel of 36 ponies. The owner couldn't start it because the batteries were months long dead. Fine I said my wife works at West Marine lets go get a new one and try it! Well the Yanmar started instantly and purred like a lion! I was convinced that the functional Furuno radar and running diesel justified the fifteen hundred dollars that she cost us. (((TO BUY)))) So we started the motor from time to time as we worked to clean the bilges and get her ready for a haul out and every time "WHAMMO" she started! Well the morning we went to take her to PT for her date with the slings she refused to start. A little playing around with the rain soaked wiring a voila we were on our way. The whole time we were hauled out I suspected that my diagnosis might have been pre mature. So again we are in the water and pushed off to the dock with our skinny little friend waiting to adjust the new packing we had put in the gland when..... Yup! she wouldn't start... FUCHULA!!! as I have learned to say! Well I wont bore you with all the details since there is only two people reading this blog and they sleep together but a friend helped diagnose a starter problem and since it was after five pm we were paying for a night on the dock till we could get to our local electrician in the morning. We did end up getting the help we needed as usual from Colin of Port Townsend Electric and had a very uneventful ride home later that morning. As for the water, most wooden boats left on the hard for two weeks in warm weather tend to take a while to "fatten" up again and stop leaking. I spent at least one night not sleeping and worrying about my old gal down in her slip. In reality the bilge pumps never came on by themselves and it was not as bad as it looked. I forgot my phone for the haul in so you get a picture of some of her rib and plank work to enjoy! I have already ripped the entire galley out though and we are feverishly working to maker her better day by day! I will post pics of the interior removal and exterior work after the Wooden Boat Festival! No she's not ready!