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Voyage 2009: Chapter 1

The Fall Cruises

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05 Sep 2009, Waiting for the Launch, 38 46.5 N/ 076 33.8 W

Jule is still 'on the hard' at Herrington Harbor, ready for her 'splash'. Swab Lilli was there to help us for much of the in-the-air provisioning. We finished bottom painting a couple of weeks ago and we tried a new transducer paint on our two echo sounders. Everything is a go for our launch on the 8th of September.
Herrington Harbour had a crab feast during the Labor Day weekend. Butch and Vicki were kind enough to invite us for the festivities. Ann sure enjoyed the wine, crabs, and the wine. They had hot dogs, hamburgers, and diet coke for Bob. It was really quite a feast! After we had our fill, we headed back to a drydocked Jule III. Just a couple of more days until we are floating again!

12 Sep 2009, Jule III Splashes and other Stories, 38 46.5 N/ 076 33.8 W

Jule III met the water at 1000 ET on 8 September. She had been on the hard since early June. The sail from HHN to Shipwright Harbour was about .04 nm but we made it without incident. It was a rainy day but we were glad to have her in a slip; a slip she occupied from 2003-2005. The only disturbing thing was that neither depth sounder was working properly. Hopefully, it is the bottom in the slip but it could be the new transducer paint. We'll see on her shakedown trip today.
No Joy! Neither transducer is working (very well). We had a nice sail though and everything else seemed to work quite well; even the crew. Looks like we'll have to haul the boat and have the junk sanded off the transducers. Looks like violating Bob's Rule #2 did not pay off. After three hours of sailing, we came into the slip much better than we left earlier. We forgot to take all of the lines off, backed out the wrong way, and just looked silly! Later that day we had a really nice concert at the pavilion in the People's Park of Shipwright. A nice way to end a not too great day.

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