Extent of damage

First, thank all of you who called to see how things were going and especially to those like Paul, Mark, Steve, John,Robert and several unnamed others that offered assistance.  It is unbelievable how much that means to the crew of WK. 

The yard (boat repair facility) surveyed the damage and now, so has the Progressive Insurance fellow.  It appears that due to age of the rigging and some subtle damage at the base of the mast, that the entire standing rigging and running rigging will need replacement.  Since the wire was stressed, it has to be replaced anyway.  Now the only good thing is  that Why Knot will receive an entire new rig.  Of course, the tri-color/steaming/strobe light on the mast head will be new.  The antenna, wind instrument and Windex will also be replaced.  The chain plates are fine except for some gelcoat damage due to movement on the starboard main chainplate.  In addition, the ProFurl headsail furler is more cost effective to replace in total than replacing the 12 year old damaged parts.  You all know what happens to stainless steel bolts in aluminum castings.  Thus she will have a new furler.  We save and re-use the boom and mainsail.  We salvage the radar, and loud hailer and of course, the new spinnaker pole and fittings.  The yard has contacted the various manufacturers and we wait for their response. 

Calcasieu Lock mainly to keep salt water from entering fresh water areas.

The yard has been more than professional and since they were the primary pleasure boat yard post Katrina, they certainly know how to do this.  It does not hurt that the yard owner is a sailor too.  So as to inconvenience us minimally, they will keep our boat in the water and use a huge cherry picker to remove the mast.  We stay plugged in and they do it from the dock.  We are renting a car and will stay until they pull the mast.  Then it will take up to a month to get the parts and most likely, we will go home for a bit to do taxes etc.  The end result is that since the rigging will be new, we skip that little exercise down the line.  That also puts us around the bend during what we hope will be a better weather season.  In the past month, we have seen only a few days above 60 degrees.  The norm here is 60.  More later. 

Dell Tech replacing our mother board-  see they will make house (boat) calls