Here's something I forgot to mention. In my first phone call with Wakana she complained that our machete wasn't sharp. It seems the cats located a snake in the yard and the machete wasn't sharp enough to sever it's head. She had to beat it to death with the backside of the blade. She is one wonderful woman.

The machete is a very cheap blade. I have never had any success sharpening it. Crummy steel. Dad is sending a machete to her in my luggage. It's actually a cane knife he confiscated back when he was on the Border Patrol boat out of Miami in the mid 1960s. He has rigged it up wioth a very nice sheath and gave it a pretty grip.

The rocking yacht is coming along nicely. We glued the second set of gunnel strips today. I think all we have left is to fasten it to the rockers and then we paint it.