Aft done? Check!

Since it was so hot during the days, Mike worked evenings on Abake this past week.  He was able to finish cleaning the fiberglass deck and re-groove the planks; lay out the boards, expoxy and screw them to the fiberglass; insert the bungs and sand them smooth; tape and finish it with caulk.  So our "impromptu" project is done.

Now, why did we start this?  Oh yeah ... we wanted to put up the radar mast.  Well, here it is:

We decided not to add the cleats right now.  We're okay with both lines being on the one aft cleat, so the new cleats were stored.  Now we just have to run the radar cable, put the aft cabin back in order, and we can move "forward" on a new project!

In the meantime, it was waaaay tooooo hot this weekend.  (It hit 106 yesterday, but not for long enough to tie the record.)  So projects were done at home.  Since we made a trip to IKEA, we found a lightweight rectangular dining fly that we think will work well over our dark green bimini and shade.  We're hoping to keep the dark-colored Sunbrella from absorbing too much heat.  We bought one triangular-shaped one for the foredeck and we decided to try putting 3 of them together to stretch from the mast to the boom gallows. 

We may end up making modifications, but for the price, this experiment was too good to pass up.  And, not having spent time at sea on Abake (yet), we don't know what will work best for us.  So we'll try the inexpensive alternatives first!