Winter project update

We have finally finished the project we came here in September to do, that we started be fore we left in 2012. That project was to install a bimini, replace the dodger and replace the stern steel cable lifelines with steel tube. The dodger replacement was a job we knew had to be done the first time we looked at Defiant08, hey we got an extra five years out of it. The bimini was a job we discovered, sailing in the heat of the Mexican summer, we needed more shade, and that starts with a bimini. The stern lifeline replacement was an upgrade to help keep people in the cockpit when you are being thrown around by rough seas and together with the bimini steel makes a really neat rollcage. As the structure for the bimini went up it was also decided to mount the solar panels on the bimini, which meant more structure had to be added, which meant a longer project overall and more delays for canvas. Once the steel was done the canvas contractor Pedro Morano was called and the canvas started, details are in older posts. Well, it all finished Friday after a couple false starts with the dodger, our receipts show we paid our start deposit in August 3013 with the last stitch February 7 2014.