Weights and Measures, things left to do...

Tiki J is being motored over to Berkeley right now to be weighed. Getting the boat weighed involved taking most everything off of it, including the sails. We spent five hours unloading it yesterday and moving everything to the owners' garage.  The owners left the marina around 9:30 this morning and will meet the "official measurer" at 2 pm to have the boat hauled out of the water and weighed.  At least now we will KNOW what the boat really weighs and we can stop the endless speculation on how much the radar arch and all the other "extras" added by the original owner put us over the book weight of 19,500.  It was amazing to see how much higher she was floating after we took everything off!  We have had guesstimates ranging all the way up to 25,000.  We should have done a pool on what the weight will really be.

There are people coming out the boat every day this week to work on various thing, including installing a new refrigeration system. Saturday we hope to organize everything in the garage and decide what goes to Hawaii and where it will be stowed, then stow it all by Sunday. We also have most of the non-perishable food in our spare room which all needs to be organized and stowed. Then on the 4th we have to buy and stow all the perishables...

Here is the schedule:

6/23 - Wed - Autopilot repair

6/24 - Thur - Autopilot Repair

6/24 - Thur - Alternator Regulator reprogram for AGM, install temp sensor

6/25 - Fri - Reefer install

6/26 - Sat - Reefer install

6/26 and 6/27- Sat and Sun - Organize gear and load boat

7/3 - Sat - Skippers Meeting and Pac Cup Bon Voyage Party

7/4 - Sun - Purchase and stow perishables

7/5 - Mon - Any last minute items, stow personal gear

7/6 - Tues - DEPARTURE!