We have been on Seanna for a week now. There is a lot of work to do. We are progressing on the chainplate replacement pretty good. We'll have the starboard side done in the morning. Before we start on the port side, we want to build an enclosure for all of our communications equipment in one of the book shelves. We will then install all of the radios. The enclosure will hold one of the VHF radios, a SSB radio, the stereo, a GPS, and the modem for our SSB so we can send and receive e-mails while underway.

We spent at least two days organizing all of our tools and spare parts. Organization is Robyn's anality. Although, I must admit, when the boat isn't torn up with all of our projects, it looks pretty good. Thanks Rob. Robyn has also been cooking most of our meals onboard. The first night she cooked, we decided we wanted cookies after dinner. Well the oven didn't work. I worked on it for an hour or so and decided we needed a new stove. It will be delivered late this week or early next.

Maritime Sanitation replumbed the boat while we were gone. We're not too happy with their work. We have had to do some things that they should have done, or didn't do very well. Also, do to their incompetence, we spent four hours on Sunday cleaning the bilge (yuck).

The weather has been wonderful. A norther blew in this morning and it has been very windy all day. The anometer on the boat showed a 33 knot gust and it has consistently blown around 20 knots. The wonderful weather should return late tomorrow.

We have an appointment with Triad Marine Friday at 10:00. They are going to recertify our liferaft. We will get to deploy it, so that should be a learning experience and a lot of fun.

We're thinking we should be able to take Seanna out for a sail in about ten days. Ten days ought to be enough time to finish the chainplates, install our chart plotter, and get the liferaft back. One of our dock neighbors took us out to the bay at night a few days ago, so we got to see all the channel markers in the dark. If you can find them in the dark, they shouldn't be a problem in the daylight.

Our next blog should have us in seaworthy condition and ready to sail. Until then...