It took JP and Susan around four hours, and many steps, but they were able to remove the old foot switches for the windlass (the wires were totally fried) and to install brand new ones. AND - now the windlass works again, BOTH up and down. For every noun on yesterday's list, there are a dozen or more verbs.
The dinghy is nearly ready to be lifted onto the davits; the pontoons are in good shape and have been installed. I cleaned the forward cabin and saloon sole and deployed the indestructible Claire Murray rugs that I (rather foolishly, since they are not in any way intended for this use) bought 15-plus years ago. By tomorrow night, on the eve of our planned splash, she will almost look like a livable boat again.
I started looking at possible float plans; we have some wish to visit the Grenadines, and SVG does allow vaccinated travelers to take an antigen test within 24 hours of arrival, so that is doable. Dominica is a sort of not-quite midpoint (to the USVI) and THEY allow vaccinated travelers to take an antigen test within 48 hours of arrival, so that too is possible, even from here. We are told St. Lucia, which we like a lot and which has very good marine services should we need them, is rather difficult, and since they are a 24 hour antigen test protocol, not really practical from here, and we don't want to be spending time in the small islands of SVG trying to get a test.
I saw from an old post that one year JP and Susan got her ready to splash in three or four days, and that included a weekend. I don't even know how that was possible. On Day Five, we still have a few unknowns on the way to the planned Tuesday splash; we haven't checked navigation lights or tested the refrigerator/freezer, and we have learned that the EPIRB (see liferaft lesson post) isn't working, so we need to find out how to get it serviced before we head offshore. Did I mention: It's Always Something?
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