Thursday May 28:
Four dock cart loads. Three backpacks of clothes – everything from 40ºF to 90ºF – flannel lined jeans and long underwear, to swimsuit and t-shirts. Provisioned with shelf stable and canned goods, to fresh vegetables and meat. We’ll have to hand carry everything when we restock. Half the boat lockers have been rearranged.
I even made an interior plan, gave each locker and cubby a letter from A to N, made a spreadsheet for an inventory of everything that isn’t clothes or food. It all fit. Mostly.
Sent the electric coffee pot and power washer home with Tim. There he goes, we’re on our own now. No car in the parking lot for us.
What’s left to do:
Wash, polish and wax the cockpit. Keep stowing stuff into the aft lockers. Go aloft to check the rig. Check the shroud and stay tension. Make sure the mast is straight with a slight rake aft. Tension the mainsail foil.
Make sure the running lights and the anchor light works. Set the remaining snaps in the new dodger that Marcia made. Calibrate the instruments. Wash and polish the strataglass in the cockpit surround. Wash, polish and wax the smooth parts of the deck. Pump out the holding tank, and fill the water tanks. Visit with our old marina friends. We have four days. It’ll get done, or it won’t. We are on a boat, living on boat time.
