Getting our ship together

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…

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