July 3 @ 9:13pm

Told Ya! rolled out of the our driveway with crooked tail lights and all at 9:13 pm to go to the Sailboat shop for all the finishing touches.

We have been working real hard the past several days with incredible help from all of our friends. Doug Pope, of Pope Sails from Maine and his son Colin, are in town and have been busy helping to get the boat ready. Carolyn Legg who sewed No.39 onto the old sails from 1946 that Libby and I found in the barn, and of course Libby and Jack! Thank you all so, so, very much! We could not have done it without your help and encouragement. We can all honestly admit that at one point or another we had our doubts, but we kept plugging away. Poor Doug, when he first saw the boat on Wednesday, he just shook his head and wasn't quite sure what to think.

It has been a busy week. On Tuesday Jack and Schyler were told by the Village Police to shut down at 11:15pm just when they were on a roll with the deck. We have had to battle with thunderstorms, hail, heavy rains, and missing parts which at times really hampered the the progress of the boat. But little by little, the work got done.

Did I mention the Regatta starts tomorrow???