Eve of departure

Reflection went into the water almost two weeks ago. We launched with everything from the gunnels down polished, waxed, or painted. Every system gone through, but still a lot of work remaining.  The new dodger that Marcia made needed to be fitted, twist & turns and lift-the-dots marked, punched and set. The sails needed to be installed, tweaked and furled away. Go home taking one load off, pick up the last load. Friday’s list - 14 items checked off, four inflatable personal flotation devices (pfd’s) checked. Green, green, green. RED. Marcia’s wouldn’t have worked. (Did we check it last year? We can’t remember.) We need new ones shipped in. I can get some delivered tomorrow. Amazon Locker Whiskey here at the marina. And they won’t deliver it to the locker (because explosive?) . Rose and Dave are home, we get it shipped there…

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