Well, a lot of changes, I totally forgot that I had this blog! So that is why I have not posted in many months...found it by accident today!.
A number of changes....we decided, for superstition reasons and the fact that nobody could pronounce the Gaelic properly, not to change the name of the boat to "Saoirse" it will remain sailing under it's original name "Simple Pleasures". The refit took a bit of a vacation during 2010 for health reasons, we got back full bore during the early spring this year and is nearly complete....all teak refinished, new bulkheads built and installed. All running rigging has been replaced and the standing rigging tuned up. A few little issues remain.....the outboard has decided to be problematic...working on that....and the Ffrachor roller-furler has decided it doesn't want to play anymore...since the Jenny needed to go for repairs taking down the roller-furler was going to be necessary anyway...Hopefull we will be sailing in the next couple of weeks to catch the best sailing weather on the lake.
We have spent several weekends on board and have hated to go ashore on Sunday evening....only serves to confirm that we are making the right decision by wanting to retire and cruise!