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Still trying to line that up but either Mosquito Creek or a club member owned yard in Richmond.

Scott, the boat is now up on the hard at Strait Marine in Steveston. Did the delivery during the VARC opener Sunday. Yahooo! We hit 9 kts on the GPS just as we were gybing into the south arm and never really got below 7 kts of boat speed with the main reefed and the #2 up. Average speed was around 7.5-7.8 kts with lots of 8+ moments.

Deck repair, prop rebuild, bottom work, new instruments and a kiwi grip non-slip deck are in the works.

Bill, I noticed that you use VC offshore on your bottom. Did you end up painting the Tacktick through hulls with a different paint? Or did you paint them at all?

At first I painted the through hulls with the antifouling transducer paint. I then bit the bullet and sprayed the housing for the speed and the entire depth transducer with VC offshore. I pull the speed sensor and insert the plug whenever I leave the boat. There is a warning label that tells you not to use paints with strong solvents on the transducers. I haven't had a problem. The speed sensor gets cleaned and hand painted with the transducer paint yearly.

Nice work Dom. I was excited that you were coming out to play there for a moment!

Bill if you are pulling the speed sensor whenever you leave the boat, why not skip the transducer anti-fouling all together?

That's for the times when I forget to pull it

Later in the summer when the water is warmer if it is left in for more than a couple of days, there will be growth to clean off.

Scott, even if I was, not sure if I could have kept up with the Hanse you were sailing on. Pretty sweet ride.

That is my VanIsle ride. That is one heavy boat to sail. Sometimes it takes two people on the winch to trim in the last inch of headsail

We are looking forward to beating up on Don and Cinco de Mayo around the island. Boo yah!

I have no idea when i am going to get time to get Natural High up on the hard The new knot meter is just sitting in the shed collecting dust!

Well the old Navman3100 stuff is out and the Tacktick goes in tomorrow evening. Looks like I'll be mounting both transmitters in the locker just forward of the nav station. Hopefully the NMEA 0183 v2 data from my Navman Tracker 5600 chart plotter will play nice with the Tacktick T-122 NMEA transmitter which runs on the 0183 v2.3 standard. Hopefully the moment of truth will be tomorrow.

Also the bottom is getting wet sanded with 600 grit (lots of VC Offshore left so on the advice of the boat yard we are only sanding and not recoating), deck recoring work is happening on the port primary to genoa track area, inboard of the anchor locker and around the port side chain plate. A new propeller is being fitted, as is a spreader through bar kit and new kiwigrip non-slip is being painted on. Fairing around the strut is being touched up as well as a couple of small blisters on the keel.

Let me know how you do with the thru-bar. How was getting it delivered up here? Who did you get it from?