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I haven't yet updated my float plan to correct all the things no longer accurate or relevant; I've just sort of changed dates. The most important factor is I'm no longer looking for a boat; I've got one. She's a 1989 Taswell 43, formerly Bonheur, which I had to rename to Chemistry because I couldn't not think of some perverted French guy saying "Oui, j'ai un bonheur." Which probably means "I have a good life" or something but sounds like something quite different in English slang.

Chemistry is a 1989 Taswell 43.

While the price was great, she wasn't very well taken care of, and had sat on dry land for 3 years. Dust gathering, water tanks rusting, decks uncovered and the teak washing away with the rain.... So now she sits, still, in Port Townsend getting her mast step rebuilt from the keel up, as the previous one had gone rotten from water ingress. But that was the only badly built part on that boat. She's solid, and beautiful. I've repainted the cove and boot stripes to a very dark (flag) blue from the original grey, though I still have some striping to do on the boot. The one solid thick stripe down there just doesn't cut it. And in truth, the whole boat needs a paint job, as the original white has lost its sheen and is pretty well oxidized.

The Float Plan, while essentially the same from San Diego onward, is completely up in the air right now on the Seattle to California legs. I really want to do the sail from Seattle to San Francisco, but we're coming into a hairy time of year to make the trip. I do not (and nobody who'd potentially sign on does not) want to make that trip upwind all the way. If we can't get a good northerly to push us down the coast by the second week of October, I may have to load her onto a truck and ship her to San Diego (I'd skip S.F. if I had to ship her). It's nice to be flexible.

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