Proper prior preperation....

Waiter, I'll have another order of bolts in Par-al-ketone, please.

Doors closed, I checked everything over one last time....

And carefully lowered....

snap, snap, snap.... placeholding bolts into the bulkhead channel brackets and reinforcing doublers.

Place holding bolts were gradually replaced with final, brand new bolts with rubber spacers or stainless steel fender washers taking up any slack in the front.

After struggling to fit the washers in the back of the side channel brackets I finally removed the support angle to allow my hand to fit in.

And it was time to remove the aft place holding bolts and replace them with the new bolts coated with par-al-ketone.

Soft dock.   

Now to the sides. Dremel out the hull and insert the bolts.

Hard dock.

Bellingham, we have a SeaRey.

As it happened, the QBs were having a meeting at the airport the night, I was invited to attend as a guest and brought OspRey along.

We stopped in and said Hi to Mike and his RV. He's got about 60 hours on it now after a very successful first flight earlier this summer.

Having Osp at the QBs was a bit poignant, many asked if she was the kind Richard had been flying and how he was doing.  

Back at the hangar at the end of the night, we took some time to be thankful, and think of what comes next.