Tuesday was a banner day, the diesel guys arrived at the Misty Lady’s dry dock l0cation and began to complete the installation of the remaining components, including the oil pan. We were hopeful that the day would end with a solid engine and the Lady would be ready to return to the water.
They had made good progress by lunch time, but were still looking at about two or more hours. When they broke for lunch (a rather long one) the TravelLift operator moved that large machine over the Lady, connected the loading straps under her hull, and lifted her off the blocks, suspending her in the air. Woody (the painting specialist) then got under the hull and did the first coat of touch up (painted the areas where the blocks and stands were positioned and were not accessible during 
the regular painting process.
When the diesel guys returned, they saw the yacht suspended from the huge TravelLift and said that they should get things done!! They actually worked on the engine until around 6 that evening and said they would return in the morning.
That evening as we were getting off the boat, we found the graphics man applying the Misty Lady’s name to her stern. It looked terrific during the process and even better when he finished. Do you agree?
This morning, Wednesday September 9, I arrived at the yacht center to see the Misty Lady partially in the water, loaded on the TravelLift and being launched back into her native environment, the water!
And NOW the Lady is in the water, alongside a dock where the diesel guys were performing final adjustments, adding oil (16 quarts) to the engine, and antifreeze to the cooling system, and the majority of the cooling comes from the “raw water” system which is a pump that brings water from the river, etc., through a pump and exhausts that water through the exhaust system and the muffler. I tested the air conditioners in the master cabin and the forward stateroom. The units in the galley and the salon were not able to power up so that will be on our final pick list to inspect the cooling water pumps for the se units.
We were hoping to perform the sea trial today and check out both the starboard as well as the port engines and ensure that all repair was completed and the engines were ready for our cruising pleasure in the coming years.
This photo, just above, is a shot of the Misty Lady’s cabin Name Boards. There is one of these name board on each side of the boat, just below the bridge.
Well, I think I will turn in, it was a long day, a very hot and humid day and this old man is worn out from the efforts of the day.
Tomorrow, we finalize the set up of the engines and the test plan. Then we cast off the lines and the Misty Lady will enter the South River in Annapolis and showing us how well her renewed engines will perform.
Fingers crossed for us and good thoughts for a successful in our test voyage. Look for another entry tomorrow relating the events of the day.
Goodnight all
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Author: harv1941
Just a summary, I am 84 years of age, retired in July 2013 and settled down to promoting the dangers of bacterial meningitis, which killed my beloved son, Mike in 2009. My wife, Charlotte, and I embarked on an adventure of live aboard cruising, aboard a large Blue Water motor yacht. While our beginning was rather fraught with hurdles, we continued to look forward to the day we moved aboard the Misty Lady and cruise the eastern seaboard and associated waterways. After more than four years of life aboard this Bluewater Motor Yacht, I developed an advanced problem due to interaction with medications and experienced rather frightening balance problems. Therefore, getting on and off the yacht was fraught with danger of falling between the docks and the boat's hull. Walking the docks was also problematic considering that our yacht club docks were all floating docks and my balance problem was a danger during the walk from our yacht's docking slip to the clubhouse or out to the DC Wharf facilities and our car housed in the yacht club's reserved garage. SO, we had to regretfully put the Misty Lady up for sale and move back on shore. We moved on shore, first into a condo apartment in Alexandria, then after two years there, we relocated to the city of Newport News, in the Hampton Roads area of Virginia. Our original desired location was in the city of Hampton, Virginia, which is the oldest English-speaking settlement in the United States having been established originally in 1610. My ancestors came to this country through this settlement in the mid 1600s and lived in that area for around 100 years before beginning a migration of one portion of our family toward the west.
I looked forward to moving back to this area and exploring the roots of my family, both maternal and paternal ancestry, but we found a great house in the Newport News area and became ensconced in the terrific neighborhood of Kiln Creek. My wife, being still actively employed, received a substantial offer in a position with a government contractor firm back up in Northern Virginia. So we put the Newport News house up for sale, receiving and accepting an offer withing two days. We then relocated back up to the city of Alexandria and into another high rise condo. My wife reached a point where considerations for retirement were becoming very important. She indicated that she really didn't want to retire in Alexandria, so once again we began a house search in the Tidewater area, this time in the City of Williamsburg and in a community restricted to 55+ age owners. We found the ideal location, initiated the sale and closing for our retirement home. We then put our condo on the market. Alas, the market was not as robust as before so we had to change asking price a couple of time, but finally the Alexandria Condo was sold. Now we are set to enjoy the great locations found here in the Tidewater/Hampton Roads area, considering that we are history buffs and there are literally hundreds of historical sites in this segment of our nation. Of course living in Williamsburg is the epitome of history living life.
So, now we are in our retirement home, in a great retirement type community. A great clubhouse with a fine dining restaurant, a grill/pub, an award winning PGA designed golf course and miles of walking trails. Looking forward to my wife's eventual full retirement and the two of us visiting all up and down the east coast historical spots.
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