Day 299, Year 10: Bright, Shiny Windbird
Date: Wednesday, August 5, 2015
Weather: Temp in the 80’s; Partly Cloudy, Windy Evening
Location: Brewer Fiddler’s Cove Marina, North Falmouth, MA
While I was out and about with the grandkids today, Mark, Heather, and Jed washed and polished Windbird so that she is once again bright and shiny. We still need to polish the cabin top, but the jobs that are so hard to do when she is in the water are done. Thank you, thank you, to Heather and Jed. At the end of the work day, we all went to Woods Hole for an Open House at the School of Science. Tomorrow is Sam’s last day of classes. It is a wonderful opportunity for him, but we are all looking forward to a few summer days when we don’t have to be on such a tight time schedule. After the Open House we went to the Captain Kidd for dinner. Dinner was great, but even more than dinner, I’m sure the boys enjoyed feeding the ducks and striped bass from the restaurant dock. Then we walked to Waterfront Park and hugged the Rachel Carson sculpture as the sun went down.
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| 150805 Day 299 Cape Cod,, USA–Seal Show at Woods Hole Aquarium |
Back to boat work . . . Mark also got the SailRite sewing machine working properly this morning and he got two of the seven cockpit plastic curtains resewn. I didn’t get the first coat of varnish on the cockpit cap rail, but I will have to find a way to work that into tomorrow’s schedule. Mark has a chemo treatment tomorrow morning going into the early afternoon, but once he is done, he can watch the boys while I varnish. One coat will have to hold it until next week as we take off on Friday morning for Nyack, New York, to visit with our good friends, Ed and Lynne Kirwin of Constance. Shortly after returning from the Bahamas this winter, they found out that Ed has late-stage pancreatic cancer. Ed and Mark have been commiserating on the phone, but it is definitely time for a face-to-face visit. Any additional work on Windbird will just have to wait until next week.
