Titusville - Here at last!

Replacing the forward hatch - first, you have to get off the old hatch and grind down the surfaces

 We started the day in Jacksonville at 7:00 am headed south. Traffic was very heavy but everything was moving in the right direction. We reached Titusville about 9:30 am and it took six loads of carts to move into Fleetwing. The boat was covered in bird crap from all the local berries they are fond of. I have a severe cleaning job ahead of me.

In the middle of working on Fleetwing - there was a Starlink launch by SpaceX!

I was exhausted after moving all the supplies but then it was time to haulout Fleetwing to replace a seacock and a forward hatch, no time to rest. We arrived at our appointed hour at 1:00 pm only to find another boat still there! 2.5 hours later, the boat was finally moved out of the slings and our adventure began. 

A closeup

Replacing the forward hatch was easier than I anticipated and was done while we waiting to enter the slings to replace a seacock. The seacock screws into a through-hull fixture and I thought they may just unscrew the old one - but rather than mess with that and 20 year old threads, they just used a grinder and cut into the through-hull to remove it rather easily. 

With one guy in the aft locker with the new seacock, they screwed the new one in by rotating the through hull from below. I could see that was easier than trying to screw the seacock itself from inside the locker - no room there. At any rate, all was done in about an hour and now we're ready for our trip south except I have to clean Fleetwing and find a place for all the stuff we brought aboard!