The mud is gone...

...for the most part.


The ground is still a little soft and mushy under the boat. But at least I can walk on it without losing a shoe. With that good news I finally got back to work on the boat.

I put stain on the transom. It looks a little dark on the bottom plank, but that doesn't matter. That plank will be below the water line, so it will be covered by the bottom paint and the boot stripe.

I put another layer of the green paint on the starboard side sheer strake (nautical term I learned). And fixed up a scratch on the port side hull from when the shed flipped over. One of the shed legs must have hit the side of the boat as it was going up and over, during that wind storm.

Earlier in the week I, put the last coats of paint on the engine hood, and filled in the emblem with the same green as the sheer strake. That way the engine will at least match the boat's color, even if it doesn't match the boat's age.