A Family that Removes Waste Tanks Together...
We had our first guests at the boat! Woooo!!! OK, actually let's clarify... they were more reinforcements than guests: willing crew members that came to provide some motivation and muscle! Still, since no friends or family had seen our new boat yet, it was fun to have Becca's parents (Jim and Lori) join us last weekend. We got to give them a tour of the boat, show them our progress, discuss all the possibilities, and get their first impressions of our baby. It was all about the work though, and we arrived on Friday afternoon (instead of late at night), which gave us an extra day to do work compared to our previous visits. It turns out that with a crew of 4 and more time, you can get a lot more done! So, I'll share the progress from last weekend in two posts, this one focusing on important but maybe less glorious projects, and another one focusing on fun visible stuff, like teak restoration. This is by far the readiest we've ever been for one of our Manitowoc outings, a