Boating Update

I am down on Merritt Island, right near Cape Canaveral with Ron. We’ve had four days of shopping and one day of working on the boat. We start on one project, realize we need some more parts or tools, go get them, then find out we got the wrong parts.
Boat went in the water Friday afternoon. (Some short videos are attached.) We accidentally drilled a tiny hole in the hull, so had to patch it before the boat went in the water.
Because I had taken off all the sails back in May, we had to reattach all the sails and all the awnings and the dodger. Reinflate the dinghy and get that in the water and make sure the outboard worked on the dinghy. All of that took several trips and several tools which we had to buy. 
On Monday, we’re gonna go for a short sailing trip. Then Ron leaves on Tuesday morning and Don comes in on Wednesday. 
Just when I thought everything was going well, a pirate boarded the boat, and I had to chase him off.
 We got to see a night launch from a beach a couple of miles from where the boat is. We’ve been here four days and there have been four launches of rockets. Photo link below:
Boat launch