Launching Suja

Our Daysailer Suja is in the water. We share this boat with the original owners who own a house here in Hope Town, but usually only get to come here for about 10 days during Christmas. We help maintain the boat and store the hull at Seahorse Marine for the summer, while the rig stays in the basement of the other owners' house. Usually the boat is dirty and filled with leaves from sitting during those hot months, but quickly cleans up. This year it wasn't bad at all and was quite clean to start with.

Getting the boat back into the water at the ramp is much easier than hauling it out and up the hill (next spring Dave will have a power winch to help him if there is no one else available to lift and pull). This is the ramp that Seahorse uses to haul out and careen their rental boats and boats they are working on.

"Many hands make light work" applies here and I handed the guys the pieces of wood that Suja slides on, as it goes down the hill.

Floating again, but in case you didn't notice, the power boat in the ramp is now facing the opposite side. We had to flip it over in order to have enough room to sneak the sailboat by. It got stuck between the boat and a small tree.

Now she sits on the Sailing Club beach and soon we will rig it and be ready to sail again!