Out of the boatyard.

 

   All work is done and its time to launch. 

   I touched up the boot stripe and the yard painted the bottom. 

   Travel lift in place to raise the boat. The one issue with being pulled at Wormley Creek - their lift is fairly small and you see that I have to lean the wind generator pole over so the travel lift crossbar can clear the wind generator.  The positioning is pretty exact to get the lift and straps in the right position with the cross bar between the backstays and pole and over the radar. It just fits with inches to spare. 

   Transiting down to the launch basin. 

   Plenty of water in the basin today with extra high tides and northerly winds. They can't launch the boat if it is an unusually low tide. 

   Heading down into the water. All worked out well for launching today with Sue off from work and the weather sunny and breezy. Great day for a sail back to our marina with a clean bottom. 

   We had a brisk sail back to Dare Marina with 15-20kt northerly winds. The zig-zag path was our transit up to Wormley Creek with extensive tacking into the northeast wind last week. The straight line is our path back with a north wind. We had to make one jibe in the Poquoson River compared to 12+ tacks on the way up.

   Back home at or slip at Dare Marina. 

   We got back to the marina just in time to ride out a Nor'easter storm with some flooding. Water levels a couple feet above normal. Our dock was fine.