Rigging are us, or not

Today was planned for mast work like rigging, take off the 15 year old stuff and put the new supplied from Mack Sails.   So up bright and early, it was even cold enough I had to wear jeans and a jacket, well at least until 10 ish.  The first project was replacing the old mast head light with a new and improved model.  Of course it isn't that easy, the old light only needed 2 wires and the new needs 3.  No problem just pull the new wire using the old and voila you are ready to wire in the new light.  1 project down  The old black light is just sitting on top of the new one.

On to the rigging; we had measured them on our last trip to the boat and then ordered from Mack Sails.  Two boxes arrived and boy they look nice and shiny, new left, old right.

September back to the boat

We had planned on taking a trip in September to make sure the boat had survived the summer and it also gave a good excuse to be at the boat.  We left Boise Friday around noon on the 4th and headed east, well south and then east.  The trip coincided with the start of Labor Day weekend and we saw the affect of that between Ogden Utah and Evanston Wyoming.  The amount of traffic and how slow everyone moved was a worry but after Evanston things thinned and we made good time.  It was a nice day/evening for a drive