I realize a lot boaters come to the southern US to enjoy their winter vacation here, and then return home to work on their vessels. The MERCY's home is here, and the cooler winter weather is my maintenance period.
My friend, Ellen, looked forward to the days she could retire and join me on an adventure, and we picked a good one for this year... let's go to Maine! I tried to tell Ellen that retirement just means hard work you don't get paid for, which she's realizing as we've both been busy getting ready for our trip to the north, and well as all the annual house and landscape maintenance!
I don't talk about boat maintenance much, since there seems to not be a lot of real adventure in scrubbing and sanding and painting and waxing or in crawling in bilges running wiring for a washdown pump, taking the ceiling down to run new antenna cabling for a shorted out antenna, changing impellers, zincs, fuel lines, cooling systems, oil changes, air conditioning maintenance... I digress.
Mercy, my yellow lab, now has a friend aboard (besides Ellen, who she loves!) with Mocha, a chocolate lab. Mocha is still learning the ropes of boating.
We had planned to leave on the afternoon tide today, but weren't quite ready. We did, however, spend the first night with the four of us aboard, at the home dock, plugged into electric, and enjoying the air conditioning! The bright side of missing our planned departure date? Familiar dockage in calm waters, with full household amenities and showers just a few steps away!
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