Boat update

Among the projects completed while I was in California: a new and better opening for the anchor:

Getting ready to climb the mast, I will belay Dick:

He had to make three trips to the top:

Primer coat:

Black bottom paint, first of two coats:

Caroline and Alan of Magic (the only other catamaran in the workyard) generously gave us a spinnaker.  When they bought Magic last year, they had duplicates and triplicates of most equipment.

An easy-to-use sock to use when dousing the spinnaker: