Book is finished and copies on order. Now I can turn my attention back the Making Waves.  I spent about 3 hours getting the engine disconnected and out of the boat. It feels like a major accomplishment too. It wasn’t hard but just time-consuming. And absolute murder on my knees and that ankle I messed up a while back!

Photos will tell the tell.

Here is free of the boat for probably the first time in 50 years.

About this point I got concerned that it wouldn’t clear the gunwales and I was right.

I had to sit it down. Tight the chain holding the hoist. Tighten the chain holding the motor and with the motor lifted as high as I could get it, it cleared by about 1/8″. That was cutting it too close!

Finally free of the boat. Now to finish stripping the hull and working up a game plan for exactly what I have to do next.