The deck might still look like hell, but we’re going sailing this weekend!
Well, in some places it looks quite nice but we don’t exactly have a good gestalt effect of WOW! yet since more than half of it is still un-sanded. But we’re getting there. If you put your face up close to the sanded areas so you can’t see the rest of it you might get a WOW! If you ignore the missing bungs…
Since moving the boat to the mooring Chris has been focused on sanding and teak, leaving me some freedom to re-commission the boat and make a few system repairs without too much guilt.
So the plan is to gather all the tools up and throw them under the V-Berth and head out for the weekend.
As much as Block Island appeals and has been our first cruise of the year more than once, apparently the channel has still not been dredged. In order to avoid a repeat of last year’s ignominious visit to the sandbar and subsequent haul off by Tow Boat/US we figure we’ll hold off until the Army Corps of engineers does their dredging. It starts next week so more visits to Block will be in order…later.
We’re thinking to keep it a modest trip since it will be the first of the season and head towards the Stonington/Mystic area.
