Day 339, Tuesday May 27th

Day 339, Tuesday May 27th

Today, we meet with the new broker, Tim in morning to review the listing.

On the way back to Crownsville from the boatyard, where we met Tim the broker we stop at Enterprise to return our rental car.  IT is not due until Wednesday, but it would be too complicated to get back to where we leave the car when we transfer the boat, so we are just returning it early.  Renting cars in teh US is easy and cheap.  We sure have enjoyed having the van for the week.

Julie taking out the battens from the main sail

We say good bye to Brad, but he is on a business call so it is just a wave and a whispered “thanks”.  Within minutes we have thrown the lines and we are on the last cruise down to the boatyard.  We are able to fly the jib for a portion of the trip.  Once we get to the harbour there are all sorts of dinghy sailboats racing and we end up kind of in the middle of them which is not so good, but not a big deal.   The clouds are getting bigger and it looks like there is a thunderstorm heading our way.

Dawson with the help of Keith flaking the sail nicely

We get landed safely, another of the 150 landings we have done in the last year.  Once landed we start stripping off sails. We get a good lesson from Keith who is also a broker on how to manage large sails and fold them in confined spaces.  The winds are starting to whip up and we get the last sail folded just in the nick of time.  We get shelter in our full enclosure which is great and appreciated.  The neighbour boat had to hide down below in his new boat.

Ugly sky coming, work fast!

We cook up our last dinner hoping to have enough propane which we do, settle into a game of Kings cribbage and also make a list of all the jobs to accomplish in the next 2 days.

We are getting there.

Cheers

Julie and Dawson