I'm in!

..long old day but I'd had a phone call the night before that the lift in team had managed to complete the 'workaround fix' to the hoist that I mentioned in the last post, and that it was working well, so I might be able to go in the next day - albeit late, as they had a lot of boats to catch up on..

"So many expectations..

...at the start of a new.. etcetcetc" 😏

...you can see the 'workaround fix' in the pictures above..  we used two large lifting straps to replace the damaged wires at the back..  the wires give additional vertical adjustment to the arms of the hoist (which also go up and down), so we lost the additional adjustment, but the straps worked well enough to lift any of the boats on the yard..

...and after a quick and painless wet launch direct from the hoist (usually I get put on the mud and float off), ten minutes later I was back on the mooring...  so good to be back out there...

Guess I need to start thinking about a mast raising party!