Day 321, Year 8: Boat Work Day
Date: Friday, September 20, 2013
Weather: Another Warm, Sunny Day
Location: Eel Pond, Woods Hole, Massachusetts
It was a productive day of boat work. We filled the water tanks—washed down the deck—sanded the aft cabin floor to get ready to varnish—got rid of our old, rusty anchor chain and installed the new chain—got rid of a bunch of books and other miscellaneous unnecessary gear. So Windbird is riding higher in the water than usual as we continue to take things off. We removed 300 feet of rusty anchor chain but only installed 200 feet of new chain, plus a 100 feet of rope. That reduced the weight onboard by 150 pounds. I don’t know how much the ‘stuff’ we are taking off weighs, but it is considerable. I’m sure I’ll find a way to put more back on than we are taking off, but it feels good to get things off the boat that we really no longer need. And we made the decision to stick with the West Marine dinghy that we ordered earlier this week. So that was our day.
Tomorrow morning and early afternoon are soccer times for Jonah and Sam and we will probably go in to see Jonah play in the morning, go to storage to take things there from the boat, and then hang around to see Sam play in the early afternoon. The forecast for tomorrow afternoon and Sunday looks like rain, but we’ll just wait and see what really materializes.
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