Marathon 2014 Part 2
Wednesday, April 2, 2014.
Sunny, 80 degrees today. Lisa and I
walked north about 1.5 miles to a place called Crane Point. This is 60 acres of preserve originally owned
by the Crane family as their winter retreat.
For those familiar with Crane’s Beach in Ipswich, MA, this is the same
Crane family. This is also the site of
the Wild Bird Center, which is where the pelican was taken to recuperate. www.cranepoint.net
for more information. We had a nice
nature tour, but did not see the pelican.
We believe he was in cages segregated from public view.
Later in the day, we went
to Last Boat (Nelson and Ondra Gainey) and had cocktails with them, Sue and
Dean (Autumn Borne) and Tess and Tony (Endurance). Endurance and Last Boat are leaving in the
morning. When we arrived, Nelson is in
the water with scuba gear and Dean is feeding him hose and giving
directions. Seems, Nelson dumped Ondra’s
iPhone5 overboard when he was dumping ice out of their bag from the beach. Believe it or not, he actually found it on
the bottom in 12 feet of water! Even
more unbelievable, after being down there for an hour and a half, it was
working and beeping that it had messages!
It was in a Life Block case. I
think everyone is now looking for one of those cases.
After celebrating the
recovery, everyone went across the street to Upper Crust for pizza (great
pizza) and dessert – banana tort (mmmmmm!).
We bid farewell to the
departing folks and hope to cross paths with them again!
Thursday, April 3, 2014.
Sunny and 80 degrees today. Today was a
relatively low-key day. It is pump-out
day, so we wait for the pump out boat to arrive and empty of holding
tanks. Lisa and I had lunch at the Conch
Café, then to Publix for some groceries.
Lisa wanted to find a place to get her nails done, so we stopped at
three different places that said they did manicures, but none had a technician
available. Later we went to the beach
and then back to the boat for dinner aboard.
Friday, April 4, 2014.
Sunny and 80 degrees today. We spent
today cleaning and doing boat chores.
Viking Bobby (diver) came by to clean our bottom and running gear. We had dinner at Dockside, which is right on
the water, and listened to the Eric Stone Band www.docksidetropicalcafe.com
Saturday, April 5, 2014. Sunny and 80 degrees today – boring weather! Lisa
went kayaking with Sharon Dunsworth (Trawler – Island Queen). We have been wanting to move the location of
the VHF radio in the cockpit, so while she was gone, I took the binnacle (the
post that holds the steering wheel and all the instruments) apart to see what
that move would entail. Then I had to
figure out how to remount the unit – looks like a wood mount on the side of the
radar pod.
Tonight is open mike and
jam night at the Tiki Hut in the marine, as well as a pot luck dinner. Lisa made a pasta dish with mushroom soup,
parmesan and sun dried tomatoes. The music
was nice and tonight the weather was great – not like last week!
Sunday, April 6, 2014. Sunny and 83 degrees today. A bit humid.
This morning we walked across the street to the Stuffed Pig for
breakfast. Terrific food – maybe not
quite as plentiful as the American Legion Breakfast – or as cheap, but still
lot’s for great food and the price was not unreasonable. Joining us were Dean and Susan and Joe and
Jamie Schwartzott (Trawler- Lady Lee). The rest of the day was spent trying to
walk off that breakfast!
Tonight is open mike and
jam session at Dockside. We went with
Dean and Susan, Sharon Dunsworth and none other than Jon and Marguerite Edwards
(Quicksilver), who just arrived from Key West – nice! I think most of the people there this evening
were from boats in the marina. The bands
were great. One guy named Mickey, a horn
player, originally with Glenn Miller, 96 years old and still going strong
(played Summertime and Night Train).
Eric Stone’s band plays backup for all the artists. Dave Preston sang blues, George Spicer Band
did 70’s rock, Gary Bush did a little country.
Lisa even got me up to dance! A
great night was had by all!
Monday April 7, 2014. Sunny and 80 degrees, but really humid
today! Storm coming tomorrow. Dean and I walk to Home Depot. He needs bits and pieces to install a new
wind generator and I need to materials to make a new mount for the VHF. Lisa is moving a bit slowly after last
night’s partying. Lisa went visiting and
I spent the day fabricating a VHF mount – twice actually – I was not pleased
with the first one – just did not fit right.
Lisa used the remainder of
the pasta she made for the pot luck as a base for “clean out the fridge”. The concoction was very tasty and we had Dean
and Sue over to help dispose of the food.
An early evening. Very humid tonight!
Tuesday, April 8, 2014. Hot and Humid today. Reminds us that we probably don’t want to be
here in the summer! Completed the
varnishing of the VHF mount and helped Dean get his wind generator set up. Lisa and I disassembled one of the big
primary winches in the cockpit, cleaned everything, replaced a couple of
springs and then finally got it re-assembled.
Works nice. You may remember we
did three of the other winches when in Fort Lauderdale last year – and we made
a trip to West Palm to get parts.
I cooked some salmon and we
had dinner on board.
The front showed up right
at dinner time. Lots of wind and rain
overnight, but the wind has shifted into the NW and it is much cooler and
drier.
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