Today was quite busy since there was a lot of work to do in order to get Zanshin ready to splash. I had found out that the factory would be closed until January 6th and that the Nanny Cay hotel was booked out for all of January and February with a film crew taking up all the rooms, so I was under additional pressure to get into the water. The factory had delivered the new upper bearing and it fit correctly, but the lower bearing was missing and since I couldn’t wait any longer I had the shop create a local solution so we had to lift Zanshin up from the blocks in order to slide the rudder stock in (it had to go up 11 feet!) and with 5 people we managed to get the rudder lifted so that Ravi could work on the upper bearing. Once all of the work was done the epoxy and 5200 had to cure and set, so the launch couldn’t be done until the next day. During this time Vernon worked on finishing cleaning the topsides and when the boat was raised Africa also completed the bottom paint on the areas where the supports had been placed.
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