Got four 1/2" bolt holes drilled. Got too cold when the sun declined to come out from behind the trees. Many more holes to bore for wires, side lights, coupler, skid plate. A few a day will get the job done. Supposed to warm and rain next week. Not sure which is worse, the quite cold and sunny days or the warmer and rainy ones. I swear some days the sun fails to rise....

I'd like to pick up a boat as lovely as that Bounty ll but I'd have to moor it, and dock it. Those long overhangs would be expensive to moor and make it interesting entering slips. The photos of the interior show a beautiful galley area with curved counters, etc. Light woods. Nice looking in the pics.

Heh. A friend of mine cruised his 19,000 lb ferro cement Eric design for over six years with a two cylinder 13 h.p. diesel that lasted until we were heading up the Columbia and half way to Portland a seal failed internally and the oil looked like milk. Mercifully there was enough wind to sail to the dock in the channel. After a 3800 mile passage from Honolulu it seemed awfully tight in the river. A slow, heavy boat but that little Finnish diesel kept plugging along.

Very was never in a hurry in his life. I still try to emulate his patience...not always successfully.