Fri June 10: More prep work in Winter Harbor

We spent the day buying MORE stuff for the boat and cleaning, fixing things.  Ima let Rick tell you about his many projects, because you can see that he is up to something in the pic below, but he's the only one who really knows what.

Rick here - although we had much maintenance and work done on the boat at Winter Harbor over the winter, there were still a few things for me to do on the boat.  Our water tank minder (it let’s us know how much fresh water we have in the tanks on the boat) stopped working last year. I bought a new gauge and now is the time to install.  I also installed a solar panel that is connected to our batteries. The panel provides a trickle charge to the batteries to keep them topped off.   I also did a thorough cleaning of the engine space and bilges. This winter we had major work done on the engine as we had reached 2000 hours and it was time for some “preventative maintenance”…..the mechanics at the Marina did a complete overhaul of the fuel injection system and adjusted the valves and timing.  But they left a mess of oily rags…so I had to scrub to get everything clean.  

Late afternoon we had docktails with Mike and Dana, to say goodbye as we leave tomorrow.  We will see them down the road on the St Lawrence.  Pretty soon along came another couple that we met last year on the wall at St Johnsville, Bob and Clare!  And a random new couple joined us.  So it was a great time to debut our cute Blue Horizon Docktails Cheese Set that loyal readers The Murphy Family gave us.  Now THAT is the way to get a shout-out in the blog!

 

Bob & Clare Perkins

New people - Tina & Tommy Osborne

Dana & Mike

Hunky Rick!!!!

 I shall now devote several pix to product placement-in the hopes that more readers will send us product!

Super cute logo courtesy of Dan Murphy and his high school wood shop!

 

 

The Docktails Cheese Board made its debut to great popular and critical acclaim.

 The spot below is reserved for YOUR PRODUCT - act now, operators standing by!!

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We know it is Friday because Guy Fieri is on Food Network…..Rick never misses a couple of episodes just to keep him grounded in time - otherwise, how do we know what day of the week it is??

And that is it for today - tonight we will look at tomorrow's route, and keep our fingers crossed for 'fair winds and following seas'......

 

Hello, moon - we should get a nice moon-rise pretty soon!

  

This is how we hope the whole of the sailing season goes...