Preparations 08
Preparations are in progress for the 2008-2009 sailing season. My current project is to set up a BLOG for the winter season. Jim will really be the author once it’s in gear. I’ll just be the interfering comic relief when I can’t stand what he’s saying, because I’ll tell the truth. Jim's preparations include budgets, changing addresses, planning for new batteries for the boat, working a new boson’s harness to change the anchor light, etc…. I do getting rid of house food and planning boat food, making Jim do the Christmas letter, and taking a few, much coveted, hot baths in preparation of a winter of soaking abstinence.
Summer Breeze sits on land at the Indiantown Marina awaiting our return. Note the above picture as we left her last winter. Her butt is the wide, extremely white one. Hopefully the mold won’t be too overwhelming in the interior and the white tree frogs in the outside storage bins too numerous though we are thankful for the much needed rain in South Florida. Lake Okeechobee has recovered from a skinny 9 feet of last winter to over 14.9 recently. St. Lucie Canal should be back to normal and lock openings should be on demand—a luxury now that we’ve experienced limited passages the past two winters.
Back to preparations. Money has been made and spent and made again and spent again to prepare for winter. Our trip to Florida is promising to be entertaining as we try to cut corners this year. Picture two old hippies, top down on the Geo, tent sticking out of the back, putting our way across the country. We’ve decided with the rising gas prices, that our cute two seater Geo that got 52 miles to the gallon on our most recent excursion through the mountains is the better choice for the trip. She’s been totaled several times when hit by other vehicles-well at least as far as the insurance companies are concerned- so Jim had some major shock work done and a new axle or some such thing put under the hood. Cosmetically, some black paint and filler took care of the rusting frame so we won’t look like we’ll fall to the ground when hitting bumps. The man at the paint place suggested a bath and polishing would do wonders for her and it did. I padded up the seats with new covers (washing the wool ones ruined them!) so now I can again see over the hood. No, I’m not shrinking…yet. Ah… the sailors life… cars aren’t the priority at the moment and Jim can’t see that they will be until Chevy makes another 52 MPG cheap, cheap car. And, I’d be happier if it ran on solar since living on a boat gives us a perspective of how much really can be done with solar or what we can do without!
So, the plan is (telling a plan feels superstitiously wrong) to drive to Texas via New Mexico November 2nd and camp on the way. Follow us if you like online, but make all your own spelling and grammar corrections along the way. No need to tell me about them as I’m sure my deceased English teacher mother is already making a list.
Nancy
Preparations are in progress for the 2008-2009 sailing season. My current project is to set up a BLOG for the winter season. Jim will really be the author once it’s in gear. I’ll just be the interfering comic relief when I can’t stand what he’s saying, because I’ll tell the truth. Jim's preparations include budgets, changing addresses, planning for new batteries for the boat, working a new boson’s harness to change the anchor light, etc…. I do getting rid of house food and planning boat food, making Jim do the Christmas letter, and taking a few, much coveted, hot baths in preparation of a winter of soaking abstinence.
Summer Breeze sits on land at the Indiantown Marina awaiting our return. Note the above picture as we left her last winter. Her butt is the wide, extremely white one. Hopefully the mold won’t be too overwhelming in the interior and the white tree frogs in the outside storage bins too numerous though we are thankful for the much needed rain in South Florida. Lake Okeechobee has recovered from a skinny 9 feet of last winter to over 14.9 recently. St. Lucie Canal should be back to normal and lock openings should be on demand—a luxury now that we’ve experienced limited passages the past two winters.
Back to preparations. Money has been made and spent and made again and spent again to prepare for winter. Our trip to Florida is promising to be entertaining as we try to cut corners this year. Picture two old hippies, top down on the Geo, tent sticking out of the back, putting our way across the country. We’ve decided with the rising gas prices, that our cute two seater Geo that got 52 miles to the gallon on our most recent excursion through the mountains is the better choice for the trip. She’s been totaled several times when hit by other vehicles-well at least as far as the insurance companies are concerned- so Jim had some major shock work done and a new axle or some such thing put under the hood. Cosmetically, some black paint and filler took care of the rusting frame so we won’t look like we’ll fall to the ground when hitting bumps. The man at the paint place suggested a bath and polishing would do wonders for her and it did. I padded up the seats with new covers (washing the wool ones ruined them!) so now I can again see over the hood. No, I’m not shrinking…yet. Ah… the sailors life… cars aren’t the priority at the moment and Jim can’t see that they will be until Chevy makes another 52 MPG cheap, cheap car. And, I’d be happier if it ran on solar since living on a boat gives us a perspective of how much really can be done with solar or what we can do without!
So, the plan is (telling a plan feels superstitiously wrong) to drive to Texas via New Mexico November 2nd and camp on the way. Follow us if you like online, but make all your own spelling and grammar corrections along the way. No need to tell me about them as I’m sure my deceased English teacher mother is already making a list.
Nancy
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