We are back in the water after our "fall" cleaning at Pleasure Cove Marina

September has been a very busy month for the crew of Nati.  There have been 3 trips north (two by Anne alone) and lots of cleaning/PMI on Nati.  We were out of the water for 13 days and Nati is about as clean as she has ever been.

Pacifica Gray this year

and new bottom paint

Anne put 4 coats of polish on the hulls (1 3M compound, 1 3M Finesse-it, 1coat of Nu-Finish and wrapped it up with a hand applied finishing layer of 3M Ultra paste wax.  This didn't include the deck cleaning along with the stainless cleaning.

Nati has 2 new coats of Blue Water bottom paint (3 at the waterline) and the sail drives have 3 coats of Pacifica Plus.  We think she is ready for another winter down south.

Nati coming off the hard and heading for water

In she goes looking great!

We had a surprise visit from our friends Felix & Margarit while on the hard.  They have sold their trimaran and are now in the "camping & fishing" mode.  Tenting???  Oh Felix, you are very brave!

These guys have the "toys"!

NOTE:  We started this post a few weeks ago and then we had to send in the camera for repairs and just received a  brand new one from Nikon on Thursday.  Sooo………. that means we've had no pictures for a while.

Update…..we have been in Spa Creek for a week now and have finished up most of what needs to be done.  At this juncture we will be heading in the direction of south tomorrow after we hear about Amy's pie contest at Evan's school fall festival.  Nati is ready, we are ready and it is cooling down……we are outta here!