Monday, February 28, 2011

Iguana sighting


First iguana sighting in Red Hook outside of Molly Malones

Morning coffee


Morning coffee is always needed even in paradise. (The date is off as it is the 11th.)

Relaxin’


Relaxin’ already – but they did have a head start as they stayed a few nights in Puerto Rico.

Sharon and Carl finally arrive.


YEAH! Sharon and Carl finally arrive.

Lines replaced


We replaced the lines and the new ones work MUCH better than the old. I recycled the old line (and our beautiful rugs that I can not keep clean and fresh) by placing them next to the dumpster. The next time I walked by I saw a sailor measuring the line – I said “I knew someone could use that line” he said he got the rugs too.

New braided line for the davits


We finally purchased some new braided lines for the dinghy davits which Mark could splice. He tried splicing some old but figured out quickly that he was probably doomed to failure when he read the instructions for splicing braided line which stated: “Using new line…”

Friday, February 25, 2011

Manual anchor windlass number 2


And this is me – natch, it began to rain in the middle of the process of doing all this manual work.