Mast up!

Yesterday I spent most of the day on the boat. I installed Constantijn's masthead fly, put the bottom of the mast back on, did a few odd-and-end things here and there...

Then this morning Ian and Dan helped me raise the mast. I thought the whole thing was going to be a fiasco, because harbor patrol was unavailable to sell us tokens for the crane, and also I wasn't entirely happy about the way the spreaders were looking, but in the end it all worked out. We got the mast up, tensioned the rig and took the boat out to the anchorage. She really really needs a bottom and side cleaning, but at least I feel better about the spreader situation. Plus, I think it's really really cool that we have a home-made masthead fly!