Weighing

I have been getting texts from the owners on how the weighing is going.  They got up to Berkeley in about 2 and a half hours (that is pretty fast from Coyote Point) and went to pump out.  (Water and waste tanks must be empty and pump out at CP is broken.)  They were getting buffeted by an 18 knot breeze inside the marina! 

Once they pumped out they headed over to the haul out area to wait at the dock until the weighing apparatus was set up on the travel lift.  Once they got it all rigged, the Marine Center people let the owners know that, oops, they were going to have to detach the backstay and back the boat in.  Detaching the backstay is okay, but there is that little part about the SSB antenna!  They had to get the yard's electrician over to detach it, then they were able to get the boat in the lift. 

Still waiting on the weight... they are lifting the boat out of the water now. The official measuring guy offered to saw off the arch for us.