Grenada - Haulout week 1

[Kevin's Post]We've been hauled out of the water for a little over a week and the progress on the boat has been excruciatingly slow. Last week all that they did was scrape and wet sand the bottom and mask the new boot stripe. The boat is supposed to go back in the water on Friday (4 days from now) and most of the work is yet to be done. I've started to be a squeaky wheel which seems to be helping speed things along. This morning I tracked down the head mechanic and told him that I had removed the propellers from the saildrives and drained the oil so they were ready to be pulled. Boom! Within 20 minutes there were 2 guys at the boat, and within 2 hours they had unmounted the engines, pulled the engines forward, and removed the saildrives from the boat. This is not an easy task, and we were amazed at how quickly and expertly they got it done. The saildrives are already in the paint shed and have been stripped in preparation for repainting. All the workers seem to really know what they are doing, which is a distinction from some of our other haulouts. The challenge is just getting the yard to assign workers to our job. Today they were supposed to prime the boot stripe, but apparently the guy who was supposed to do it parties too hard on the weekend to work on Mondays. That's life in the Caribbean.