Trip 130 - Sunday - April 11th

 

Well, it was a beautiful day, we wanted to get out of the house and we grabbed some paint and went to sploch up the bottom again.  No convolutions, no extra work, just the basics to get the bottom painted. 

This year, we will launch her in late April and within a couple weeks, step the mast and hang the new forestay and furling equipment.  Then, the new sails.  Marcia and I, are excited ...

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We brought Annie with to get her out of the house too.  She, is tired now, sleeps alot, and in general, her health and happiness is failing.  One day, I will make a phone call to Dr Evans, who has taken care of our Bullie for some time, to come to the house and ...

A day I am not looking forward to, at all.  As I help her make a journey she can no longer make by herself.

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On a more positive note.

I got to thinking of those of you masochistic enough to follow these ramblings and, the range of occupation and location is quite large.

I have a Vice President of a large investment firm, a Ship's Captain with a Masters License, a young man who has Multiple Sclerosis and Muscular Dystrophy who will never walk yet put himself thru college and now sells computers at Best Buy (who my entire family is so proud of!), wife of the President to a major Banking Corp, a Master Carpenter, a retired Prosthodontic Dentist, the wife of a major businessman in town, a banker now doing outreach work, a Captain in the Air Force with a Masters in Aeronautical Engineering, a true Artist, a professional Pianist, four folks with Masters Degrees, one with a PhD, a professional hairdresser, a Sr Biologist, a Deacon in the Orthodox Church, the Assistant to the President for a major sailboat manufacturer, the Harbormaster of the finest harbor on the Mississippi for 635 vessels,  a true (successful) door to door salesman - really, the owner of a major east coast Sailboat Distributorship, a college student with a Full Boat four year scholarship and smart he is, a worker in a nuclear power facility, a good and kind mother of four, an engineer who designs concrete culverts from one foot, to over eight feet in diameter and a few others who are simply good friends.

To which I add, 'Stay tuned ... '

 

Once again, the car is being slowly transformed into its annual sojourn as a Boat Repairman's junkmobile.

 

I wiped the white water line stripe and the top 2" of the bottom paint with lacquer thinner to freshen everything and get rid of any carnauba wax on the old bottom paint.

 

All done.  Took 2 1/2 quarts of Interlux CV17M.  

 

Annie, wondering where I am.

 

Time for a walk.

 

What a dog! The sweetest, kindest, most gentle dog that has ever crossed my path. 

 

I will use these images to determine if a nutsplitter will fit down there. I will replace the rusted suckers with stainless nuts and, clean up the bilge as well.  All while -in- the wawa.

 

All clean and ready for another season. 

 

Miss Empty Pockets ...

 

Later ...