November 24 Monday I got out of bed at 6:30 AM , did my exercises, made coffee and tried to listen to Chris Parker’s weather. I could hear him on the SSB at 8.137 MHz but he was so light that I didn’t get most of his forecast. It was laundry day so I gathered […]
November 22 Saturday I got up a little early and got my stretching in before the weather. When Chris Parker came on the radio I could hear him especially good but it was short lived as the signal soon got all garbled. I drank my coffee and started to read the paper. But there was […]
November 23 Sunday I slept in and had a late breakfast of cereal and my morning coffee. I spent the morning reading Shelby Footes volume 1 of the Civil War. After lunch I walked over to Cruise Inn to play dominos and pick up some groceries. The dominoes were not kind to me as I […]
Saturday, November 22 It seems like I do some of my best thinking at night, so I’m going to reflect on the purpose of writing the blog for me. Last trip as you may recall, I wrote about every day on our trip. Please go here, if you want to read that blog of our […]
November 22 Friday Last night was the first night sleeping in the V-berth and after I got up I felt ok. I had been worried that my back would hurt worse but it didn’t. I went through the usual routine of stretching, coffee, and Chris Parker’s weather. I had some ambition so I tackled the […]
November 20 Thursday I got up before 7a, did my stretches and listened to Chris Parker’s weather. There was a loud interfering signal but I could hear most of the forecast. Next coffee and the morning paper. In my case the New York Times on line. The first thing was to put the bedding on […]
November 18 Tuesday Today I started with the teak in the cockpit. But first I took the masking tape off the hand rails. I then took off the binacal, the shelf that holds the GPS and the teak boards that hold the winch handle holders. I hand sanded the parts first the shelf. It would […]
November 15 Saturday At the end of the day Friday the yard moved the jack stands so I could paint the bottom where the pads were. Saturday morning I got to work right after the cruisers net at 8 AM on channel 68 on the VHF radio. It didn’t take long to sand and paint […]
Friday November 14 I got up at 6:30AM and the day started off not so good. I ran out of propane, so no early morning coffee. Bummer! I had cereal for breakfast then got organized to paint the bottom. First I masked off the waterline. This required moving a short stand around the boat so […]
Tuesday November 11 Happy Birthday Me It’s getting old, this working on the bottom and the post in mostly about other things. This morning I noticed new scaffolding next to Changes. This was for Uncle Sam to start cleaning up the boat. After cereal for breakfast, Sam showed up and started to clean the deck […]
Travels with the Dolsens 