Oriental, NC

 I know it seems like there is little progress....but this project really does take most of the day each day.  I'm measuring, then planning, then measuring again.  

This is one side of the bag, assembled with half of the zipper panel.  The batten pocket has a velcro flap to keep the batten in place.

 

 

And Duane is still busy installing Starlink....look at that beautiful Carolina sky!

 

Mid-day our buddies Ed and Cathy tossed off the docklines to head up to Bridgeton Boatworks for their biennial haul-out and bottom paint.

 

Weird to be on the dock alone after so much company lately!!  But they'll be back in a week or so.  (And we won't be lonely long as Charm will visit again tomorrow for a while!!)

 

The two panels laid out to mark the final placement of the hold-down straps on the bottom of the bag.

 

And I fabricated a zippered piece that will wrap around the front of the mast - a re-design that will look like a lot of the other Mantas.  (It's lined with stiff dacron sailcloth to prevent chafe.

 

And a long-awaited event - Duane got the Starlink roughly installed and operational!  It is very fast and we'll have internet even when we're sailing overnight passages in the open ocean!