Wednesday, March 26, 2008

Day One....We've started!



Finally, the restoration of Lightning #39 has begun!! On a very cold Sunday afternoon we removed the shrink wrap , removed all the parts and began scrapping off all the old blue paint. Unfortunately, there was some damage at the bow that bummed Schyler out. It was very exciting to finally see what this boat looked like under all that shrink wrap (since I had no clue!) and a wee scary to see what I got into! We have lots of hard work ahead of us before this summer's 70th Lightning Regatta, but we
will do it! And, thank God someone left a bottle of Blue before sh
rink wrapping the boat! Is anyone truly surprised???

The next step? Warmer weather so that we can strip off all the remaining paint!