Well the boat had its first race since flipping. It rocked! We finished 2nd in our 1st heat since May!!! Yah! The races were unfortunately blown out by lots of lovely wind, so we traveled a long distance for 1 testing heat and 1 heat. But we finished 2nd! I did take pics, so sometime here soon, I will post them of our lovely gray boat. This is just a quickie, I have wayyyyyy to much going on this week to sit this long..........have a grand one!

Well, we are almost done sanding the 1st coat of primer. The rate of time spent is something close to this: 1 person, 2 hours, 1 maybe 2 square foot of sanding. See where this is going? We have about 2 square feet left on this coat, then we get to fill in the low spots, then prime again. We then get the lovely pleasure of sanding yet again, although this coat should sand a bit faster. less than 2 weeks to go, and I am gone for one of those! This does give Jim the time to pull some late nights on it though.  Depending on what this next coat looks like, it might just get a final coat of primer, and call it good for the rest of the season. Then to the reassembling everything. Remember, at this point, there is nothing in/on the boat. The fuel cell is under the decks and that is it. So all the cable's and wiring, motor, wings, lids, cowling, skid fin.....yadda yadda yadda. You get the idea!  So I will try to post some pics as for what it looks like right now, I will take them after this next coat goes on........

Well, it is primered. FINALLY! We have been sanding forever as of now. Itching to no end. Now that it is primered (primed?) we get to sand some more. At least it is a different color. Just something different is nice. So, it is Seafair weekend, (for those of you not in the area, this is a HUGE race weekend for millions of boat fans in Seattle.) Anyways, it's Seafair, and we have been watching fellow drivers and crews on national TV, and choosing to stay home and work on ours was a hard choice. We are recording it, but here we are, at the shop, sanding on the boat. STILL. We will have it race ready by our next race, which is in a little under 3 weeks from now. We are now down to 11Th in the nation, so our dream of the top 5 this year is pretty much nil. There is always next year, new sponsors, new paint job. For now, I think the boat will be known as "The Ghost", being it will be a spiffy color of gray primer! We are looking at different colors of gray primer, but let's be honest here, primer is primer no matter what shade of gray it is. That is why it is known as gray primer. Or primer gray to the REAL men. Which I can proudly say I am not. So, that being made clear, I can see that I am really just rambling here, and so I will cut this off now, and go back to my hole to sand some more! Ta Ta!!