As of this morning Border Maid is now afloat again. What turned out to be a pretty extensive refit is complete apart from a few bits of painting and varnishing and a few other things. All things considered I am pretty pleased.

A very enjoyable day was spent connecting up the VHF which works (new antenna) and generally pottering around. The bilge pump was humming every 5 minutes to start with, reduced to every 7 or 8 minutes after about 5 hours afloat so taking up should not be a huge problem. First actual sail will be Thursday or when I come back from a week in (on?) Skye.