This site just got the ability to add videos, so I thought I'd try this little clip taken last July when I was out with Chuck.
August 26, 2007
August 15, 2007
Some sailing news, or I guess it would be more appropriately called "boat news" because I never did get to sail! I'm discovering that easily half of what one does with one's boat does not involve actually sailing it!
I went up to the marina Sunday after returning from the OBX to take a cooktop which is to be installed this week. I'd hoped that the mechanics would have finished fixing the over-heating problem that Chuck and I had a few weeks ago, but they had not. Pat looked at it Sunday and got it (we thought) to the point that I could motor out to the river and sail a bit, but by the time I got her to the channel, the temperature gauge was rising alarmingly. So, I turned around and came back to the slip.
Another mechanic, Jason, looked at it Monday morning, but it appears that there's more to be done than what he was able to do that day. So, instead of sailing I busied myself with exciting stuff like cleaning the bilge, filling the water tanks, doing some minor repairs on the dinghy, and other less exciting, but nonetheless necessary, stuff.
(I decided that pictures of all this fun wouldn't be of much interest to anybody!)
I went up to the marina Sunday after returning from the OBX to take a cooktop which is to be installed this week. I'd hoped that the mechanics would have finished fixing the over-heating problem that Chuck and I had a few weeks ago, but they had not. Pat looked at it Sunday and got it (we thought) to the point that I could motor out to the river and sail a bit, but by the time I got her to the channel, the temperature gauge was rising alarmingly. So, I turned around and came back to the slip.
Another mechanic, Jason, looked at it Monday morning, but it appears that there's more to be done than what he was able to do that day. So, instead of sailing I busied myself with exciting stuff like cleaning the bilge, filling the water tanks, doing some minor repairs on the dinghy, and other less exciting, but nonetheless necessary, stuff.
(I decided that pictures of all this fun wouldn't be of much interest to anybody!)
No sailing news here, but I did spend the last two weeks at the Outer Banks which is at least on the water and I got to see lots of sailboats! We were there from July 27 - August 10 and Gary & Jean joined us for the first few days.
Family started showing up after G&J left, and we had a great time. The weather was unusually cool during the first week and blistering hot in the second, but we managed to stay cool enough to get in plenty of beach time. Pictures of the beach babes (Missy, Patsy, & Lulu) and cocktail hour (Patsy, Lulu, Barb, Missy, & Ray) follow:
One pleasant surprise was that the fishing had improved greatly. We'd stopped taking our fishing equipment to the OBX years ago because there never seemed to be any fish. But after seeing the luck others were having, I managed to catch 15+ spot and mullet which fed the fish eaters in the family one night.
Family started showing up after G&J left, and we had a great time. The weather was unusually cool during the first week and blistering hot in the second, but we managed to stay cool enough to get in plenty of beach time. Pictures of the beach babes (Missy, Patsy, & Lulu) and cocktail hour (Patsy, Lulu, Barb, Missy, & Ray) follow:
One pleasant surprise was that the fishing had improved greatly. We'd stopped taking our fishing equipment to the OBX years ago because there never seemed to be any fish. But after seeing the luck others were having, I managed to catch 15+ spot and mullet which fed the fish eaters in the family one night.
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