Arturo comes through!

The gating item on getting back into the water has been getting the bottom painted. The paint arrived in Panama City, but the crazy weather had closed the road. Yesterday, in a driving rain, I heard knocking on the hull. Arturo had arrived with the bottom paint (and a bunch of other stuff). The normally hour and a half drive had taken him four hours! The road was one lane in many places due to mud slides and conditions were the worst he had ever seen.

But now we have bottom paint, and today there is a hazy sun peeking through the clouds drying things out a bit. Once the bottom is painted we'll wait a day or two and be able to get back into the water. New Morning feels so much better in the water than on the hard.