LAW 125: We splashed, or hurry up and wait.

Yesterday was the big day. After approximately two months of scraping and painting and putting back together and re-wiring and... we finally launched our new floating home, the EV, Tesla's Revenge. Yea us!

It is a little intimidating under here.

Don finally got two days off in a row, we finished painting the spots on the hull where the stands had been; he got the twelve volt system working, which meant that our bilge pump was now functional. This is a very important safety feature in a displacement hull boat. We were next! We were in the sling, time to touch up the bottom of the keel, buy the champagne we forget to buy when we were out this morning, and hurry up, splitting up these last few duties, because we thought we would be in the water in minutes, not almost three hours later.

Last minute painting!

Unfortunately, the gods were laughing at us, the barge with the work crew's pile driver was kind of in the way. They were at lunch, that is our new slip they are blocking.

Yes, that is our slip that is blocked

Boats do have a mind of their own!

Alright, back from lunch, the push boat is launched, and the barge is moved into the fair lead blocking our trip to our slip. At this point we are in the water, Don is happy as Tesla's Revenge is floating, and even better, as he says, she is floating upright. Now we just wait until the crew gets the old, broken piling removed, and yes that is at least as important as launching our boar. Still, hurry up....

Petitioning Poseiden to accept Tesla' Revenge

A small offering for protection.

We are in the water, in the slip. We re-christened The Gilded Lady, petitioning Poseiden to please strike her from his rolls and accept Tesla's Revenge. Most, but as you can tell, not all of the champagne went to Poseiden, we had to have a little!

Now it is our turn!

Drinking out of a champagne bottle isn't easy!

Well, we are in. we are floating, and yes, we do have so much left to do.

Contemplating the move

More later,
gail