Monday January 30th and what a whirlwind. Chris and Gus of Olympic Boat Transport “and ballast keels” arrived in Port Townsend about 1330 hrs and we started to work the keel mold.
Due to Gus’s schedule (moving another boat at 1600), we decided to disassemble the mold partially and use the mold structure to support and place the lead under the boat today; as in now.
It is quite the thing to watch Gus back and fill to line the ballast keel up with the boat and block up.
Hats off to Gus and Olympic Boat Transport for the good work, “sure made our job easier”.
I must take this time to state that I and the Schooner Martha Foundation are so very pleased with the professional abilities of the folks we are working with. We are surrounded by CAN DO attitudes that produce incredible work, efficiently and enthusiastically.
David Griswold of the Port Townsend Shipwrights Co-op said,” lets get this keel under the boat now” and that was it, under the boat it went!
