How many small powered skiff's does it take to move a 54 ft. vessel?? 3!
When living on a mooring you have to do an annual safety inspection, same as if you were a full time liveaboard in a marina. In this instance, alot of vessels on the mooring do NOT have working engines nor do the "captains" have the means or know how to get their vessel's from point A to point B. The above photo is of a friend and neighbor who had engine issues...so Neil, Stewart and another fellow boater made easy work of getting the "Bessy" to the closest public dock for an inspection....now isn't that sweet? Way to go team "Hand Full."(Tug boat style!)
The outcome? Passed with flying colors, and a boating community BBQ!
Since we have had about 4 days of amazing weather we made use of it and went to work on the sea hatch....
We are also needing to re-do alot of woodwork,that when we left San Francisco was all fresh and guaranteed for 5 years in normal conditions..... has left us to needing to "freshen up" after only 3 years of fun and sun.
This news of coarse makes Winnie howl in horror!
And so goes the makings of the sea hatch...first with a good quality hard wood followed by 5 layers of fiberglass cloth.
Next is a light sanding and some filler to
remove the "dimples" fron the cloth and give it a nice smooth finish.
Tomorrow's agenda will be some primer and some light sanding followed by paint on the side boards and the new sea hatch. I have learned so much since I am Neil's "hands" while he is recovering. As weird as it sounds, I am really enjoying it! When that is all completed we hope to make a hard bimini and set in our solar panels where we had just canvas and steel. This is in addition to some much needed "refreshing."
Until then the dogs say "hey!" and are enjoying our beautiful weather!
