Monday April 30 to May 8
Lots of work on boat to get ready for our trip up the Pacific coast starting at San Francisco Bay, up the Northern California coast then Oregon and Washington State. The waters up the coast are known to be fairly rough at times so you need to be well prepped. We loaded up the 1100 pounds(400 foot) of 3B ½” chain in to the back of the pickup and hauled it over to the boat ramp in our marina where Joe our next door boat neighbor was nice enough to help us load the chain with his heavy duty inflatable. We then hauled chain up in to chain locker with the windlass from the opposite side of the dock where the dinghy was from Water Dog’s bow. Went well and only took ½ hour or so.
We also had the 6 man Viking life raft inspected by Sal’s Inflatables in Alameda for $2400(ouch!) and used the dinghy crane to haul it up in out cargo net to place in it’s cradle.
Next up we put up the plexiglass storm windows on the Port side to protect the windows from any large waves we should not encounter but better safe than sorry.
We also epoxy glued some more WeldMount Footmans Straps in to lazzerate to use with 1” NRS rafting straps to make sure nothing moves while underway. We use blue tape to hold them in place until the epoxy glue cures.
