Adventure is OUT THERE!

This week has been very exciting. After a winter of major effort the Verite is ready to be shipped off to Roskilde, Denmark for the Atlantic Challenge. See the tabs under our heading for more information about that.

Roskilde, located 30 km west of Copenhagen on the Danish island of Zealand, is the main city in Roskilde Municipality. With a population of 50,046, the city is a business and educational centre for the region and the 10th largest city in Denmark. 

Here are some of the before and after pictures...
Maria did a magnificent job of threading the needle... what I call backing up the boat and trailer through a narrow door, down a long passageway and nearly into the container the Verite will be transported in. It was awesome! Not to mention navigating the pot holes and train tracks on the way over to Trident Shipping.

Before: The first row of the season....

The Sunday Sailors

Here she is - waiting for her big overland adventure...

Look at her gleam in the sunshine...

 And we are off...we leave the Sea base behind and duck our heads as we go under the 11th street bridge.

We wind our way through the tideflats.

Onto the freeway!

 We made it!  Trident Seafoods...

  First run at it...

She was nearly all the way in and then...

What! We forgot to pull Verite forward on the trailer so she'd fit in the box!

Then too the ramp wasn't wide enough... the trailer wanted to fall off the sides. 

It was something else... and moving her forward... 

it was not an easy task either!

The bumper rails had to be released. 

And then there was adding water to the boat...

she might get thirsty on her way around the world.

Don't forget the tire!

 Closer'er up boys and girls... she's ready to go!

Of course someone noticed the rope and bundles... just a picture we said,

with heads shaking.... we said to each other, once a weaver, always a weaver.

After a good morning's effort... lit was off to Alfred's - for all day breakfast!

Spring update

Many weeks have passed while working on Vérité. The homestretch is almost in sight. The goal is to have her ship shape  and ready to send to send to Denmark for the Atlantic Challenge. This last week there was a fundraiser. Fingers crossed that it went well. Fingers are also crossed that safe transport  can be arranged from Tacoma to Roskilde, Denmark and back again. While these things may not be insurmountable there is a deadline which always increases the challenge.
 
This last week our work day was compromised by loss of electricity for more than an hour. A high pitched alarm kept us out of the building and drove us to the car. What is almost as good as a boat load of women? A car load! Thankfully the lights came back on and we could go to work.

The material for the new oars. Who knows, maybe by this next week they will be underway?

 

She looks shinny, doesn't she?

 

Jill, with the steady hand, is painting the gold leaf on the inscribed letters at the bow.

 

The others paint green.

 

One other got stuck in the bathroom sanding stripe blurps.

Proof that some of us will do anything for Vérité.

 

Wax on, wax off

Just when you think progress is being made you find it necessary to do it all over again.
This past week was just that. We had to do the floorboards again. Rather than fuss, the WOWers put their heads together to find creative ways to get'r done.

And when done there's birthday brownie (with caramel inside!)

First effort was to take the shortest route. That lead to lots of giggles.

 

In the end it was the long way around that proved to be the easiest.

 

 

 

Okay enough fun putting the oars in the bathroom!

Time to cetol the floorboards.

 

Who left the foot print?

Not the WOWers!

 

 

Happy Birthday Voski!

 

Winter showers

If winter showers bring spring flowers, what does turpentine, pine tar and linseed bring?

answer:   A boat load of giggles!

Oh, my gosh... last week - what a mess! There was dust everywhere from sanding the oars.

This week it was all about the sauce - boat sauce to be specific. Oh, sure, some of the gals were using cetol to finish the floor boards, but the happiest ones were using the boat sauce. There's something about the smell of the pine tar. It is a little like being 'round a campfire.

Pine tar is a sticky material produced by the high temperature carbonization of pine wood in anoxic conditions (dry distillation or destructive distillation). The wood is rapidly decomposed by applying heat and pressure in a closed container; the primary resulting products are charcoal and pine tar.

 

 

wipe on, wipe off

 

We always try to end our work day on a happy note.

Between the sauce and the cupcakes it isn't hard to do.

In fact, a good workday followed by good food is the secret to

cheerfully doing what "U ought to".