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The Big Maintenance Haul-Out

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The Name Is Finally Official!

Haven’t posted anything for a while because we were on an extended road trip. Right after Labor Day we had the Good Karma hauled out to complete some maintenance items that our surveyed found when we bought the boat. They weren’t serious items but several of them required that the boat be out of the water. They use what is called a “travel lift” to raise the boat and wheel it to a back location in the boat yard. The boat is lowered on several stands which are surprisingly stable. Boat hauling is a common maintenance operation and many people here store their boats “on the hard” for the winter. For long term storage they actually shrink-wrap the entire boat, which puts a water- and sun-proof coating around the boat while not in use. We plan on being much further south before winter sets in here at Rock Hall.

Since we couldn’t be on the boat while they worked on it here, we decided to do a Civil War battlefield tour, coming next…

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The Work Begins…


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