Addiction In The Water!!!!!

Early Monday morning, with the help of Rick the rigger his employ Row, my uncle Gary, mom, Howard and a few other people in the yard we were able to put Addiction in the water. It all went smoothly, and she didn't sink, that's a plus! After everyone came back from lunch we got our act together to step the mast. When we pulled the mast back at the Phoenician i noticed that there were no coins in the step, and i have always been told that is bad luck, so before westeeped it this time around, i put a silver quarter that Mike Rush gave the boat and a Kennedy head half dollar from the year the boat was built. So i think were covered.

Once all that was in order we drooped the mast and tuned the rig. After that i went up the mast to attach an antenna and a flag halyard, then we ran the lines on the deck and we were done. Before we left the yard I got the estimate to see how much it would cost the yard to fix the 3 dings on the beams, I guess i don't know much about the cost of boat repair because i wasshocked to see that it would be $3084.25. I talked to my Load a Boat guy, and i was informed that Pasha will only pay up to $1000. He wants me to wait to get back to Hawaii so he can have his friend fix it. That's not going to happen.

Mom, uncle Gary and i left the Marine shipyard at 1645 headed to Rainbow Marine. It took us about an hour to get there, and let me tell you it was COLD and windy. We pulled in to the channel in front of the Tole Mour, that was neat.

Addiction has a really nice slip, thank you Rick Sanders and English John. Our neighbor Berry was kind enough to split his power cord for us, so now we are all powered up.

Mom and I are kinda bummed that do to all the delays with the shipping, we missed anopportunity to crew on Vicki in the Hoga race. Thank you very much to Chris Welsh for the invite, good luck racing Ragtime, in what is probably her 80th Transpac. See you in Hawaii. Also thank you to Jeff on Hot Ticket for the invite to do the Thursday night beer can races, I might make it this week. Aloha to Becky.

Mom has been on the phone with our party planner Julie Downes, she is doing a killer job, I am really looking forward to the booze luge and some drunken hula hoop contest, and whacking the shit out a pinata.

Oh i almost forgot, the cat i am holding in that picture belongs to Rick, ( that is Rick in the picture). It is by far the biggest cat i have ever seen in my life, he tells me it only weighs 19 lbs but I'm calling a good 30 lbs. Its a Manx so it only has a stub of a tail. Alright that's all for now.