July 12th 2006 - Wednesday  

Just about ready to launch!  I've varnished the exterior of the boat with 2 coats of varnish.  I need to go back and touch it up, but it should be water proof enough to test this weekend!  The registration and hull numbers are in place and the instruments have all been programmed.  The most important one was the digital MMSI number that tells the coast guard to come find me at my GPS coordinates.  Karen helped me mark the anchor line at 25' increments and took a picture of the toilette.   More pictures will be posted after this weekend.  Hopefully it won't be of the boat sinking.