On the hard

Pau Hana got hauled out of the water for the first time in 18 months today. Overall, we're happy with how things look. But after 12,000 miles, we have some repairs and maintenance to do! We're hoping to be on the hard for about a week, depending on how much "project creep" we get. Project creep describes the experience of starting to fix one discreet thing and then realizing that there's about 5 other projects that need to be done in order to address your primary project. Ahhh... the joys of boat ownership.

 Pau Hana gets new standing rigging. It's no fun being in the middle of the ocean thinking, is this rigging (all the stainless line holding up the mast) really 30 years old?

 On the way into the travel lift today. The current was at least 3 kts and pushed us into the downstream post, putting a scratch in the blue shear stripe. Good thing it's not the first one.

 Getting moved into our new slip. We're hoping that our repairs will only take about a week. It's no fun living in a boat yard.

 This lovely announcement is cast into the travel lift. I guess it's a good thing that I'm starting work on Monday.

 Martin uses advanced tools to disassemble the rudder post.