Day 120, Year 7: There’s a Moon Out Tonight
Date: Wednesday, March 7, 2012
Weather: Gorgeous, Warm Day but Very Windy
Location: Brewer Fiddler’s Cove Marina, N Falmouth, MA
“There’s a moon out tonight. Whoa-oh-oh-ooh.” If you know the tune that
goes with those lyrics you were probably a teenager in 1961 when The Capris
made those words mean more than that shining orb in the sky. The full moon
tonight is incredible. Technically it is not full until tomorrow at 9:39
GMT (Greenwich Mean Time), but that is 4:39 am Eastern Standard Time. So I
think we can agree that the moon tonight is full-and beautiful. I kept the
boys here at the boat this afternoon and then Heather and Jed came over for
dinner. When they left I stepped outside to see the moon. I love having
the protection of our plastic covering, and although it is translucent, it
is not clear and you have to step outside to see anything.
You can definitely tell that it is March. The weather is fickle and the
wind blows constantly. Today was warm, almost 50 degrees F here on the
water (warmer in town), and tomorrow is supposed to be even warmer. But
Friday night will dip into the low 20’s. That’s fine with me as long as the
sun shines and warms up the days.
I didn’t get seeds planted today. Hopefully that will happen tomorrow. But
I did get the soil ready and I bought the planting pots, so everything is
ready as soon I have the time. We went for a long walk this morning and
talked about what we are going to do about Windbird’s teak deck. It really
needs to be replaced, but the cost for that simply precludes it ever
happening. Another year in the future we might pull the teak up and replace
it with fiberglass, but not this year. So we are going to repair and
re-caulk what we have. We checked today with Fred, the manager here at
Fiddler’s Cove, to make tentative arrangements for getting the bottom
painted. While the boat is out of the water, we want to replace the
thru-hulls. So our spare time in the next two months while we are still
here at Fiddler’s Cove is going to be spent working on the boat. We need to
do the deck work while the plastic is still on, but at some point we are
going to have to cut some holes for circulation. Today it was almost 90
degrees under the plastic, so when the daytime temperatures reach 70 degrees
outside, it will be stifling on deck. We need the protection of the
covering to keep the deck dry while we are working, but the plastic has to
come off before Windbird is hauled for painting. So I think we’d better get
busy.
