Horizontal Stabilizer Ready for Inspection, and Wing Kit Arrival!

Been awhile since I have posted... we took a nice holiday in California for 2 weeks in March, so progress has been slow.  BUT...

Horizontal stab is completely riveted on one side, and ready for MD-RA inspection.  It is safely put away until that milestone is ready.

Also, I have been working on the annual for the Emeraude - which is taking a fair bit of time.

The big news is the wing kit arrived today!

So here are some notes / hints for wing kit shipping / delivery - this is specific to Canada / transborder, but has some general notes as well:

1. If you plan on picking the crate up from Glasair directly, you will get charged local (WA State) sales tax @ 9.1%.
2. Glasair will arrange for shipping, which means dock to dock.  They will not setup delivery to your door / on the ground.  Unfortunately I was not informed of any of this until the kit was ready to go.
3. Glasair / their shipper will arrange brokerage, but it is at a premium.  In my case, shipping was $600 USD, but shipping and brokerage was $1600.  I arranged brokerage for $275 Canadian (About $210 USD)
4. After asking on the Glasair forum how guys have dealt with shipping in the past, they have had the crate sent to a shipping location that has a loading dock.  They then arranged for another shipper with either a flat deck or hiab crane to deliver the crate to its destination and drop it.  In my case, I had a flat deck deliver the crate and we just slid it off onto Harbor Freight / Princess Auto cheapo dollies.

Next is onto the elevator... but that will not start for a couple weeks.