What's in a Name?

Maury Cooper, a local artist famous in the boating community, painted Demelza's name. The original owner named Demelza after the wife of a sea captain from a Welsh story. Maury has been painting boat names for 44 years. The seagull is his signature (a stylized "M"). By the way, the hole in the transom is for the wind vane (self-steering system).

A Fancy Bottom

Alex and Lo attack the bottom painting together - a long-awaited task after what seemed a multitude of hull repairs.

Hockey Goal Nearly Complete!!!

Rob Burton (face under Gary's fist), our rigger, doing a "dry fit" of our new arch. We'll put a couple of solar panels, a wind generator and a GPS antenna on this contraption. The weather hasn't been cooperative lately causing a backlog of items to mount on deck.

The LONG weekend

Putting holes in the boat is always hard. You don't want to make a mistake! Here, Randy and Gary put the finishing touches on the holes drilled for the new speed and depth instruments. As you can see next to Gary, the new holes were placed over old holes that had to be patched first because the old holes were too big!! That's why this takes so long!!! After several improvement projects, the bottom is now ready for new anti-fouling paint. The engine mounts have been redone and we're just waiting for our new prop and shaft.

The Black Book

One of our most valuable possessions these days is Lo's black book. She has been diligent about recording all the essential information about our trip preparations. There are pages and pages of lists with multi-coloured ink denoting various aspects of each task. For example, the photo shows a schematic of our bow reconstruction looking from the top. Pretty anal, right? Well, we spent about 4 days chipping out the old stem fitting that was glassed in place (i.e., we couldn't inspect it). Since we have literally poked our heads into any space that they would fit, we want to document our findings.