Paint vs rain

Fay is arriving on Thursday mid-day, I depart for Panama City tomorrow afternoon, and we need a place to live when we return. New Morning needs to get into the water! But first she needs a new coat of bottom paint. The bottom paint cannot be applied in the rain and the sun has been out for only 4- 5 hours in the last nine days.

Yesterday it quit raining about noon and the sun never came out, but by 2pm the hull was sufficiently dry to start painting and they got one coat of paint applied. This morning is again blowing a steady 25-35 with intermittent rain. The wind helps dry the hull so that's not as big a problem as the rain. If we can get the second coat on today, we can launch first thing tomorrow morning and I can get New Morning tied up, the refrigeration started, water tanks filled, etc before I depart for Panama City. We just need 3-4 hours with no rain.