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The owner of the beautiful antique Chris Craft that I had here on the blog a while back got a new trailer. We had to move the boat to the new trailer yesterday and adjust it to the boat. We recommended Dave's Boat Trailers in Glen Burnie who has made some great trailers for us and are a pleasure to deal with.

Pat got the mast prepped to take out yesterday, but no one was available to help. This morning we got back on it. This is no Grand Banks mast - it is massive and we have 4 guys on hand to do this safely.


We still have a few people who seem to have forgotten that they had jobs - I guess that's what happens when you are off on vacation too long!

After a much need break, we are back today (well some are - some are MIA). As you may guess, it takes a while to get your stride back after taking that long of a break. I am swamped with book keeping and the guys are trying to pick up where they left off.

Pat's project this morning is to remove the mast from this Sabre for painting.


The last boat we pulled before we left was a house boat - which maxed out the width of our travel lift (but no where near the weight capacity). We are blocking it a bit higher today as the owner wanted more room underneath to work. The inside of this boat is nicer than our office - I was hoping they would leave it here and I could move out there (they have heat!)


We also had pricing requests on two hard top jobs over the holidays - I guess the internet does work.

If you have been following the blog for a while, you will realize the significance of the coffee cup icon to the left. Last day of the week! There are rumors that the shop will be starting their 2 week holiday today, but that is unsubstantiated at this point. Someone should be attending to the message machine and email during our time away, although email is the best as most of us can check that from home. John will probably be in a lot during the holidays and some of  us will be in sporadically.

Although I promised no more winterizing pictures, I had to throw one more in to stress that we do winterize outboards as well as the big mama engines.


Rumsey will have the demolition work complete on this cabin sole and be ready to start the jigsaw puzzle of putting it back together upon our return. We did find one soft spot beneath the teak and holly in the sub ply which will have to be dealt with (note the black spot in lower right hand corner of the peeled area).


And this little mouse won't be having much of a holiday now, will he:

"Would you tell me, please, which way I ought to go from here?" asked Alice.

"That depends a good deal on where you want to get to," said the Cat.

"I don't much care where," said Alice.

"Then it doesn't matter which way you go," said the Cat.