Thursday

High of 86 today! Maybe I can abandon my little desk heater at last. As usual we start off the day with a launch. This boat had fairly new bottom paint but was not multi-season…

Mid-Week

Many hands make light work? There was a lot of work going on out on the 42 yesterday but I did notice people dropping out one at a time late in the afternoon. I imagine…

Tuesday

Yesterday (and today) was all hands onboard on one particular boat I have taken to calling “Silk Purse” for obvious reasons. There is still a weeks worth of work to do on this boat before…

Manic Monday

Goes hand in hand with Frantic Friday which is how we ended the week. Some guys actually worked over the weekend. Still 2 weeks until Memorial Day but only one week until my birthday with…

EOW

I feel a Frantic Friday in the making. The travel lift schedule seems impossibly insane and my requests seem to still be primarily ignored. You may want to call first if you are expecting to…

Thursday

Pre-EOW. There seems to be about 4 days worth of work to accomplish by tomorrow. We found another keel problem on a Grand Banks that was headed to the bottom prep area. Hopefully it is…

Mid-week

We start out the day launching a boat (as usual). This boat was scheduled for last week but as you recall, we had to do a last minute keel repair on it. We got the…

Tuesday

You may have noticed there was no post yesterday. I am officially entering the annual spring burn out. One can only take so much stress whether it be from too many tight deadlines, being ignored…

EOW

I have come to hate Fridays here at the yard. This time of year every one seems to be a Frantic Friday — sometimes beginning on late Thursday and extending out. I guess that’s why…