Winter maintenance done, let's go sailing!

While the winter has been mild and there hasn't been any snow it has been a long one tucked away in a damp and dirty corner of the boat year. With all of the rain, the ground to my port side has been water logged until last week. This is where the yard set out my mast on stands. The fool has applied a very light anti-fouling with the last of the cheap 'work boat red', normally called brown or dirty purple. My mast is fully rigged, let's hope the new wire is the correct length. I have a new mast head light with combined anchor and try-colour and new VHF antenna with windex. The cap shrouds have sail protectors where they pass the cross trees so my new sails shouldn't chaff too much. He has left new clevis pins in the cockpit which are drilled to take pins in two places. To make sure they fit the rigging screws he has drilled them out to 10mm. The rudder looks passable, the colour match on the above water section isn't great and the finish is a bit rough but nothing like as bad as the stem which he tried to fill! The VHF cable from the radio set to the deck fitting has been replaced, it still needs to be fixed to the bulkhead but there is every chance of the radio working. The top sides have been lightly sanded to remove the chalking and then cut back and polished. I feel great and cannot wait to get back into the water. The beach legs that he made fit very well now that he has worked out that he labelled them the wrong way round. I dread to think what will happen when he tests them but I am sure it will involve mud and stress.