On the Hard at Bock Marine near Beaufort NC

We got to Bock Marine on Monday morning. We expected to get ready to haul Prestissimo for a couple of hours and then to ask Dirk at Bath Harbor Marina to pick us up in the van I left there in January so we could drop him off back in Bath on our way home.  It didn't work out quite that way since the travel lift and crane operator was off for the day.





  The delay turned out to be just what we needed since it took us all day to get everything ready to leave the boat at the yard.

First they lifted Prestissimo with the Travel Lift and power washed the bottom (which was still pretty clean from the scrubbing in the Bahamas just before we left).

 Then they drove the boat over to the place where they wanted to leave the keel.

 The travel lift had no trouble lifting the boat high enough (after they shortened the straps) to remove it from the keel.

Then they took Prestissimo to her home in the yard and used the crane to remove her mast and lay it along side.

Prestissimo is in a good spot for the summer.  She has shade till nearly 11:00 am.