On Sunday, April 6, 2014 9:21:37 PM UTC-4, Wayne. B wrote:
It has been quiet on rec.boats this weekend. Hopefully that means
folks here are getting out and doing some boating, or working on their
boat, thinking about working on it, or maybe planning a cruise or
fishing trip.

Our massive re-varnishing project is coming along and starting to look
decent again. After stripping most of the trim to bare wood and
starting over, I'm now up to 8 coats, about 260 linear feet per coat.
One or two more light sandings, and one or two more top coats and
she'll be good to go.

We had our 5 year insurance survey done on Friday and that went
reasonably well with no show stoppers, just a couple of relatively
minor followups before we head north.

Friends of ours recently had their 60 footer burn to the waterline
while they were underway near Sanibel Island:

http://www.abc-7.com/story/24870538/boat-on-fire-south-of-sanibel#.U0H671fvil8

Sorry about your friend's misfortune. And yes, we were out for about 4 hours Saturday. It was a nice day despite the copious amounts of pollen in the air and on the water. I installed the second battery in my newly rigged dual battery setup. Worked flawlessly.