Last minute repairs and upgrades

We have decided to go South with a cruiser's rally known as the Baja HaHa, which departs from San Diego on October 26th. That means everything must be ready in time for us to get down to San Diego. We have been working frantically to take care of problems and make repairs. In the last couple of weeks we have replaced our aging lifelines and replaced the main and spinnaker halyards, which were identified as suspect when we had a rigger go over the boat. I added a teak bracket on the stern for our new outboard engine, added a hoist for the outboard, rebedded a leaking deck prism above the chart table and made a series of repairs, upgrades to the sanitation system to try to deal with an odor problem. Our marine toilet is new--the problem seems to be an old Y-Valve (diverter valve) which was leaking because the gaskets were shot. Replacing that was a delightful job--not exactly how I expected to be spending my time on sabbatical.