January has been busy, we returned to Malaya later than planned and have been working steadily to take care of the list of little projects, things like life line netting to keep Maddie on board, cleaning out the old cruddy water from the sump, compounding and waxing the deck house and cockpit areas, finally getting whippings on the ends of the new running rigging and sewing on leather chafe protection on where the whisker pole hits the shrouds, tightening up the headstay and an dozen other projects.

The list doesn't seek like it is any shorter and probably isn't as we add two items to every one we finish.

On Wed the 3rd of Feb wenwill be moving Malaya to Fort Lauderdale as there is more opprrtunity to find work there. Stuart is nice but not a large enough marine industry here.

I'll tell ya about the trip south in the next post