Yachting is so luxurious. Sipping Champaign on the deck while lounging about eating canapes is wonderful. I’ll have another please.
Hahahaha, I wish. Wild Rose has been sitting at the dock all winter and the birds in our marina decided to camp out on her. Pretty sure it was all of the birds in the marina. As a matter of fact, I’m not sure what is going on here in Virginia, but some type of bird must be eating toxic waste because they are pooping out this orange indestructible poop. I’ve never seen anything like it, and it sticks to gelcoat like permanent adhesive.
I’ve had it with the birds, I may bring a shotgun on board. I was sitting in the salon the other day and heard a lout bang on the coach roof. Yeah, apparently a crow had dropped a spare rib bone on the deck. Who knew crows liked spare ribs? Ridiculous.
Add to that moving on to a boat from a 3000 square foot house, regular boat maintenance and some planned upgrades as well as some stray current from a near lightning strike and we’ve had a hell of a month.
Nancy is still working, but we have been working overtime to get the boat ready for full-time cruising.
List of projects completed:
- Evict birds that set up camp in our boom over the spring, sorry birds
- Remove bird nest, it took up two five gallon buckets to fit the nest into
- Clean lines that birds set up nest on
- Glass in scuba compressor platform
- Glass in sewing machine holder
- Glass in supports for storage bins
- Sewing step covers
- Sewing dolphin seat covers
- Sewing outboard motor cover
- Repairing dinghy floor
- Sourcing 15’ long fill whip for scuba compressor
- Clean coach roof, this took about 30 hours
- Clean deck, this took about 15 hours
- Wax deck and coach roof
- Reinforce sunshade for bow
- Scrub teak
- Buy mylar sheeting to hang all over boat to try to keep birds off boat
- Install helm enclosure
- Check windlass
- Commission both diesel engines
- Commission generator
- Commission watermaker
- Diagnose battery monitor after lightning strike
- Finding room for the way too much stuff we brough from our house
- Donating the way too much stuff we brough from our house
- Fixing gelcoat dings
- Design Starlink mount and hire stainless welder to fabricate
- Installing Starlink mount and drilling holes through boat to run cable
- Splice dyneema line for anchor safety tether
- Run starlink cable, 16 hours
- Wire Starlink to 12 volt system
- Diagnosing Starlink 12 volt problems
- Re-wire Starlink 12 system three times
- Buy more drill bits to replace the six that I broke
- By new hole saw to replace the one I destroyed
- Clean grill
- Buy new battery for Dremel tool
- Install cushions
I think I’ve lost about 10 lbs in the past month, have many cuts and bruises and even woke up one morning to discover I had epoxy in my hair.
Yachting is so relaxing.
But, she’s starting to come together. We have some crew arriving in a couple of days and will be out cruising for the next 15 or so days in the lower Cheasapeake, so it will be nice to be at anchor and out of the bloody marina.
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Be Wild.