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Another long day, week...

Progress on Intrepid includes:

- bottom work and paint finished

- hard dodger making major progress and ready to be attached

- Mike Smith is the man of the week. He has been working hard on installing and coordinating all electrcial systems.

News:

Articles came out in The Log http://www.thelog.com/news/logNewsArticle.aspx?a=4&b=14&x=6632 and The Argonaut http://www.argonautnewspaper.com/articles/2008/05/01/columns/nautical_news/nn1.txt newspapers. I think the Ventura County Star is going to do a story some time soon. I had a break on Friday and did a photo shoot at sea with Ocean Rescue TV and the Star photographer on board. We had a nice blow and it felt good to actually be sailing a boat rather than tearing one apart!

Thanks:

Thanks go out to many people this week.

Mike Smith has been an incredible boost to the team here - working non-stop (and cheerfully I might add) on Intrepid's electronics installations.

Dr. David Benson, a volunteer from LifeSail, came up from Long Beach and stayed overnight to help out.

Andy and all the guys at Anchor's Way Marine Boat Yard in Ventura for putting me up and putting up with me!

Tim Hill has lent his artist's hand to the dodger project.

Elijah, Ryan, and Brad for giving up their Saturday to come and see what on earth I'm doing.

I'd like to say more but I've got to get some sleep. Click on the link below for another album of photos. If anyone knows how to get photos to post to blogger.com, I'd sure like to know!

http://picasaweb.google.com/zacsworldadventure/YardWeek2?authkey=4Eq4TzUurnU

Cheers,
Zac