Sunday afternoon has come at last and we just returned from a weekend aboard Mary Lee. Barely here a half hour and blogging. Why??? You guessed it. The sails have finally gone up. All the old crusty lines are replaced.

The leftovers of lines that could be well over a decade old. I did all the splicing and finally all the old lines are replaced.

You can see the difference in the lines on each mast. The mizzen mast was done first. The main mast still has crusty lines

It was a bit of a chore.

Soon even the main mast was wearing all new lines. I still had a bit of sorting to do but withing 20 minutes of this shot we were out putting up sails.
Vivian took the helm while I pulled the lines.

Then she graciously allowed me a shot at the helm.

Not sure which one of us is happiest. I am very pleased. It has been a long time coming.
 We were only out about an hour as it was obvious I needed some time adjusting/fine tuning the lines. Was okay...we were ecstatic to get them up on Saturday like we planned.

There was no wind Saturday night so we put the sails up and left them up all night. I was out there at 5:00 AM adjusting things. I think Vivian said she slept well until I started pulling on lines. :-) What can I say? It happens!

By 10:00 am I was finally finished with that chore. We had planned on taking her out again before leaving for Myrtle beach but there was no wind and rain was a coming. Vivian asked....Could I give her a bath? Oh Boy...What a fantastic and most admirable first mate. I played hookey for the first part of the bath but soon joined in to help finish.
 I have been getting compliments on Mary Lee as she has finally started to clean up and come together. She still has a bit to go, but not a lot. I am finally able to start using her as I planned so long ago.

So we packed up and as we crawled in the car the rain started. Perfect timing. Will be sailing on Thursday and Friday ,Saturday and Sunday.
I know you don't think Mary Lee was my only project this week. I have cabinets to build in Vivian's laundry.

I had to pull out the shelf I had started. There was a change of plans and a change in the way I wanted to assemble them.

This was the plan. Three separate doors for laundry baskets on the bottom shelf. Of course I left it open between the baskets. But the top three spaces needed to be separated. I decided to use the router table and create a channel for the partition to slide into. It worked out well.

Now it just needs paint and the doors. That will have to wait though. It is Thursday night. The plans are to drive down to the marina and spend the weekend on Mary Lee. So everything is jammed into the cupboards.

Just needs doors and paint.

Hope I can get it done before the materials arrive for the nester dinghy I have been wanting to build :-)

This is one nesting and one together. I suppose since Vivian wants to use the dinghy I will likely get away with at least starting it before the doors are on the cabinets ;-) But whatever the outcome. Gonna be doin' a lotta sailing on Mary Lee!!