Day 337, Sunday May 25

Day 337, Sunday May 25

It is the long weekend here in the USA and the weather is beautiful, so lots of boats going up and down the river, which is nice, but ..... where we are docked we are not sheltered from the wakes and we are worried about banging up against the pool slide located at the end of the dock that hangs out about a foot.  When we sense a particularly large wake we dash up on deck to help shield the boat from moving about too much.  Luckily it all worked out and we really didn’t have to dash up at all, but better safe than sorry.  Hopefully tomorrow it is no worse.  It is an excellent protected spot, we just don’t want to damage our wonderful hosts dock or toys.

See how clean the boat is!

Mid morning Dawson contacts our broker as he thought the email from Pat had said to give him a call. It did not, however they had a good conversation and Pat indicated that there was not a good match for us as customer and broker and he would pass us back to Tim the owner who we had made original contact with and had been recommended by friends.  We were satisfied that this would be the best course of action for all concerned and shared a few emails with Tim to get the ball rolling on listing Jazzebelle for sale (versus sail).

We continue to apply Cetol to the bow sprit and eyebrows.  Today is the 3^rd and last coat, and so we remove the masking tape about an hour after application.  It is now hot and sunny so the masking tape is gooey, so now we have a goo gone job for tomorrow.  One step forward, a half a step backwards.... and we even used the good masking tape to minimize this.  Oh well.

Once this work is done, we head back into town to Home depot to pick up a few more things we need.  This time we avoided rush hour as it is the weekend.  Our last stop is Trader Joe’s for a few groceries and we are back to the boat awaiting the Sitler family return as they are expected back from their family holiday today.  We have dinner, but the Sitler’s have been delayed and it is 9:30 at night before we see any lights on up at the big house.

We head on up to say hello and pass along the few groceries we had picked up for them.  Everyone is tired so we plan on getting together for a sail tomorrow and bid our good nights.

Cheers

Julie and Dawson