Friday morning around Dawn, I brought the boat over to the boat yard for Haul out with my friend Pauly. We had a nice ride over watching the sunrise and tied up at the work dock at Independent Boatyard at about quarter to eight (we had to be there by 8:30). After signing in, the yard hauled Valkyrie first thing which was nice because sometimes you have to wait for hours if there are other boats. Really I had planned on the whole process taking longer so I ended up taking it easy for the rest of the day and getting everything together for Saturday morning.
I started sanding early Saturday morning and and as I thought, the bottom was in good shape and it only took about 3 hours to sand the entire boat. After lunch, I put the first coat on and the boat started looking really nice. Sunday I put a second coat on and then inspected all the seacocks which were in good condition. in climbing around in the engine room, I discovered the nuts on the battery terminals for the starting battery were very loose which is probably what caused the difficulty starting on Friday morning. we'll see when we get back in the water.
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