Recommissioning at Lake Stockton March thru April, 2002 Lake Stockton,   Missouri. Information: The following set of images starts with ALYS' arrival at lake Stockton, Mo., and continues to just before relaunch. During the recommission, a lot of items have been updated and/or added. This set of pictures deals only with the major up grades. Please click on Mod's, to the left, to view all of the mod's and upgrades.
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Arrival at Lake Stockton, Missouri. ALYS arrived at Grand Mariner Yacht Services around 10:30 am on the 1st of March. It took about 1 1/2 hours to off load her, then another two hours for winterization. It was very wet and cold this day, and that night the lake area got 5" of snow.
01 Mar. 2002 Grand Mariner Stockton Missouri. Arrival at Lake Stockton.	01 Mar. 2002 Grand Mariner Stockton Missouri. Closer view.	01 Mar. 2002 Grand Mariner Stockton Missouri. Fwd. port view.
01 Mar. 2002 Grand Mariner Stockton Missouri. Positioning the straps.	01 Mar. 2002 Grand Mariner Stockton Missouri. Preparing to lift.	01 Mar. 2002 Grand Mariner Stockton Missouri. Slowly lifting.
01 Mar. 2002 Grand Mariner Stockton Missouri. Hanging in mid air.	01 Mar. 2002 Grand Mariner Stockton Missouri. Backing the launching trailer in.	01 Mar. 2002 Grand Mariner Stockton Missouri. Moving to the yard for commissioning.
Start of recommissioning. The first thing to be done by the yard was to re paint the bottom. The paint used is Interlux's "Trilux". Several coats were applied to the whole hull, and 2 more at the water line.
March, 2002 Grand Mariner Stockton Missouri. First coats of bottom paint.	March, 2002 Grand Mariner Stockton Missouri. Starboard view.	March, 2002 Grand Mariner Stockton Missouri. View from astern.
The next major task for the yard was to set the mast. Usually the crane would be brought back in, but since ALYS's rig is small (and to save money) the small boat mast pole was used. As I was drafted into helping, not to many pictures were taken.
April, 2002 Grand Mariner Stockton Missouri. Moving to step mast.	April, 2002 Grand Mariner Stockton Missouri. Aligning "ALYS" with mast stepping pole.	April, 2002 Grand Mariner Stockton Missouri. Mast is up and boom is on.
April, 2002 Grand Mariner Stockton Missouri. View from a-far.	April, 2002 Grand Mariner Stockton Missouri. View from front.	April, 2002 Grand Mariner Stockton Missouri. In the staging area for final out fitting.
Applying new name decal. I contracted Signs & Designs, of Stockton Mo., to redo ALYS' name and port. The yard removed the old name, and ? (owner of Signs & Designs) made and installed the decals.
April, 2002 Grand Mariner Stockton Missouri. "ALYS" gets a new name decal. (If you look closely, you can see the remains of the old port name).	April, 2002 Grand Mariner Stockton Missouri. Close-up of the first decal.	April, 2002 Grand Mariner Stockton Missouri. Finished decal.
April, 2002 Grand Mariner Stockton Missouri. Head on view of transom.
Final views before "ALYS" hits the water. While these are the last pictures of ALYS out of the water, they also show something that I have not mentioned yet. Reed Shaw, the owner of Grand Mariner, talked me into having the top sides Polycoated. Polycoating is a process of cleaning the top sides gel coat, then applying several coats of clear polyethylene. This has the same effect as clear coating the paint on your car, it makes it shine. I'm very pleased with the outcome.
April, 2002 Grand Mariner Stockton Missouri. Head on view.	April, 2002 Grand Mariner Stockton Missouri. Starboard view.	April, 2002 Grand Mariner Stockton Missouri. Port view.
On to launch day