We spent the first two weeks of June painting the bottom and hull of Passat II and installed the wind steering gear which is an RVG and hopefully we will be a very reliable third member of the crew. At least we know it won't argue with us about the commands that are given!

I thought we would never finish the painting it was a continuous round of scrapping, sanding, taping, painting, untaping, sanding, painting.... that seemed to go on forever in between wind and rain storms.