I'm lucky (and I'm sure this is rare) in that I can usually choose my weather for haul out. October was a bust for sailing. When it was good, we got some sailing in and a few more overnights. When it was bad (most of it), I wasn't too excited about getting ready to haul out in bad weather.
The first good weather window was the first week of November. so I had the boat pulled last week.
And it's been getting better ever since. It can't last forever but it nearly hit 70 today as we pulled the mast out. That's a change for this season (I normally have it pulled and stored inside at haul out) as I need to take the stick to home to wood it. The varnish I built up initially in 2000 after taking it down to bare wood, has served notice (I didn't know as much as I do now so I'm not surprised it only got 20 years).
My daughter was an extra set of hands again. Pulling a mast on the hard is easy, it stays still!
We walked up to my house and waited for the truck.
Rolling it into the backyard(photo by MJ):
This is pretty typical stuff to see in my neighborhood. Sailboat up and over 50' roll around town all day. Spars much longer and heavier than mine go through town on storage yard pick-up trucks with special racks. Most of these loads head yards just out of town but many go into back yards.
