Back at It!
We're back! It's been quite a while since we posted here, which has prompted a few people to ask - some directly and some indirectly - whether we have given up on either the blog or the boat. We are happy to report that neither is the case! The truth is that after such an intense first year or projects, we were both pretty ready for a break. When the boat came out of the water last October, we intended to keep working on it this past winter as well - maybe at half the intensity of the previous year, we originally thought. But after I made a solo trip in November to tackle a few small things, we kept pushing our next visit out... What started as "maybe we'll go every third weekend" became "well, maybe we'll just take a break until after the holidays" eventually became "hmmm... maybe closer to the season starting"... In the end we made it up only once before splash to do a few things that had to be done out of the water. So, the break became