April 4st, 1931, Mahdee slid down the ways at the G. F. Lawson boatyard in Dorchester, Massachusetts. What a happy day we’re sure it was for Sandy Moffat and family.

We plan on doing something special for Mahdee’s birthday year–we’ll likely have a little party for her sometime during this summer. In the meanwhile, we decided that we’d make April 1st an all-out-work-day for Mahdee. David continued interior furniture making and I taped off and sanded numerous areas of exterior varnish in need of special touch-up care. Then, in the late afternoon, we worked together to sand the paint off her port side rub rail. The large rail has been getting cracks in the paint on the top. So, off with the offending paint. It is all prepped for the primer to go on tomorrow morning. This will be another paint-and-varnish weekend for me.

We told Mahdee how lovely she is and both David and I can say that we hope we’re lucky enough to get a “rebuild” shortly before 80, like Mahdee did! With her new parts, she should make it well past 100.

Happy Birthday, Mahdee.