Wavertree at Caddell Dry Dock 2

Here’s a list of previous Wavertree posts.  This post could be called Wavertree down rig, a slow and careful process that is best seen chronologically.

August 2.  The rigging remained this way through the morning of the 14th.

August 14.  Birk Thomas took the next two.

August 20. I got here while the osprey was still on watch . . .

and looking in control of his realm, but

a bit later, the riggers’ watch began and

the osprey left his station to them, who undid his perch

 

 

and on August 23, when I got there, el gran velero aka dirty dog aka Wavertree was stripped down and

a lot closer to being hoisted in dry dock.

I’m guessing triage of spars will happen and what goes back up will be refurbished before going back aloft.

Thanks to Nelson Chin for the photo below, showing a sampling of spars, now all labeled, waiting to go back up next summer.

Thanks to Birk for the August 14 photos and Nelson for the photo directly above;  all others by Will Van Dorp.