04 Nov 23:
What an amazing an wonderful day. We took a road trip across the James River Bridge to gather the little Bahamas dinghy from her current steward. Skipper and Helen did the double secret handshake while I was playing with lines and a dolly.
We used Sunfish mainsheets to rig a hoist, released the supports and lowered HENNING down to the dolly upside down. Once on the dolly it was easy to turn the dinghy over for her exit stage right. A little bush needed to be trimmed for dolly clearance.
Ready to rumble, over the river and through the woods and over another river and through more woods...
For some reason I had 12 feet in my brain even though Helen had told us 10. You think it would have dawned on me at this point, to question why a 12 foot boat didn't fill up a 12 foot trailer...but it didn't...Skipper had figured it out though and was waiting to see how long it would take her Marine to come to the realization. She had to wait a day.
Safely at her new homeport, Southside.
HENNING brought a lot of parts with her, 3 masts, a boom, a boat hook, paddle and a push pole.
HENNING got a bath to release some dirt and loose topcoat. A 2000 psi bath. We found one chink in the fiberglass coat, and suspect more.
The aft floorboards came along but the forward floorboards may be hiding with the oars somewhere.
HENNING has two mast thwarts, the aft thwart appears to have been added at a later time, since it overlaps the seat a bit and the materials/construction method differ from other parts of the boat.
Forward mast step.
She's got some sweet lines.
TETRIS Alert: The Sunfish ANNA moved out to the Sunfish Shack, HENNING checked in to the Carriage House.
EXCUSE ME swapping sea stories with HENNING. HENNING might have a few more to tell...
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