02/05/2011, Des Mines Marina
OK...we have had our fun weekends...now it is back to work!! I need to finish up some wiring projects, get the new anchor installed, measure for the new auto pilot, wire in a new couple of lights....the list never seems to be depleted!!
Jeanne did do a couple that were on my list for today, so I guess my list is shorter than I had planned. She installed the new teak holder for our hand held Garmin GPS and the new ACR GPS enabled EPIRB, all at the nav station where they are easy to get to if there is an emergency.
The EPIRB is another one of those large dollar items that we have, and hope to never use!! In the picture above you can see the EPIRB, the Garmin GPS and the new waterproof cover for the inverter that Jeanne made. Our inverter is some what in harms way if we should take a large wave that comes in the cabin door way. So Jeanne sewed a new waterproof cover for it that will protect it.
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Get down here guys!
01/31/2011, Burien, washington
Saturday morning found us back down town picking up our Portland friends to go to the Boat show. Like the best laid plans of mice and men.... everything changed! The ladies decided to go on a Seattle shopping spree, so Jeanne brought the Explorer so she could haul the whole group around town. The guys all headed to the indoor portion of the boat show. We had a whole day of goodies, gizmo's and boat gadgets!! We ran into lots of friends, and even found time for a couple of seminars. Not a lot of money was spent, but we had a great time.
The schedule, if you want to call it that, was to meet up at the Pyramid Brew house right across the street from the boat show at 5:00 with all the boating friends from around the PNW as well as Mexico and California!! Jeanne had been cooking up a suprise for the evening, so the 8 friends from Portland and Jeanne and I needed to be in the parking lot at 6:45 to meet our "Shuttle Express" van to drive us to see Dave Calhoun play at the new Piranha Joe's in Burien. Dave did not know we were coming, so he was pretty blown away when we all showed up in funky star shapped sun glasses, beads and noise makers!! I had spread the word to the 40 or so other friends that were at the Pyramid as to where we were off to, and if they were going south to stop by. And a lot of them did!! WOW what a party it turned into...let's just say, it was with out a doubt the first conga line to ever dance thru the restaraunt.
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Would have liked to be there for that one!
01/30/2011, Seattle Boat Show
Well...the great seattle boat show has come and gone!! From all of the vendors that I spoke with, it would have to be considered a huge success!! I dont know if the expectations were low, or some small segment of the boating economy has made a strong up-turn. Many of the vendors that we worked with, on a variety of things were either very low on product or just plain sold out.
Jeanne and I really had very few things that we were needing to find, with a couple of additional fun things to look at. All of the above we taken care of, at what we feel were very well priced. There are a couple of things that will have to be shipped, due to low inventorys or our particular special needs!
One the high lights of this show was a chance to spend some time with Rich Boren, off of SV Third day. If you have not been reading some of our earlier posts, rich and his Family live on their boat down in Mexico, so he was an exceptional source of information for us regarding our trip into Mexico, as well as some stops along the way!!
Rich (in the picture above) was at the boat show marketing his watermaker that he designed!! From all of his reports, the boat show WAY exceed his goals!!
We mananged to spend all or part of 5 days at this years show!! we are tired but feel that it was certainly worth it!!
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01/29/2011, down town Seattle
All on board....The food was great..the belly dancer was fun...and we got to ride the SLUT there and back!! What a blast to have the Crew from the Compass Rose yacht club up for a visit!! tomorrow we will hit the boat show, although i have a pretty good idea the ladies are going to bail on us and go shopping!!
the Boat show...the Boat Show...the great Seattle boat show!! see you all there tomorrow!!
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01/28/2011, Des Moines Marina
Ok, I guess it is time to make this official!! Since I have 45 days of work left, Jeanne has like...I don't know 10 or 12 actual work days!! We have set a date to celebrate our "cutting the dock lines" as of April 16th, so there is no going back now!! Not that there is any thought of changing our minds or anything silly like that!! We have reserved the guest dock area in Des Moines Marina...Check, we have arranged for a keg of beer...Check, all our friends and family have been invited...Check We have wrapped up all of our last minute purchases from the Boat Show!!...Check I guess there is nothing left to do but finish out our days at work, clean up a few loose ends on the boat, see the cars and get out of here.
But wait!!! I am getting ahead of myself...it's this work thing!! I still have to keep doing it!! I have promised myself that I would do everything in my power to not have a "short timers" problem.....I really am trying, but it is getting hard!! The boat show going on right now is even making it harder!! All the cool people, and all the cool things about boating to look at, and talk about. All of our friends knowing that the time is getting closer so we talk about it more....argh
OH well....I guess I better get off the computer and go back to work!
If you happen to be around on April 16th, drop by the Des Moines Marina guest dock and have a beer...and celebrate with us!!
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01/27/2011, Down town Seattle
Friday night at the boat show and we are done shopping already. Our wallet is a little lighter than before last week, but there was only a small sucking vaccum as the funds went out this year!
the cool thing about Friday night is that our Portland (Oregon) friends are all coming to town! They ride the Amtrack train up early enough to do the "Boats a float" portion of the show, saving the big indoor show for Saturday!! We have cooked up a few suprises for them this year!! Friday night we will all ride the SLUT ( Ok as much as i wanted to leave it right there, is the South Lake Union Trolly) down to the Marakesh Morrocan restaraunt for dinner and belly dancers. The evening will be capped off by a stop at Jillian's for some arcade gameing!!
After the show on Saturday, or at least at 5:00 we are meeting up with all the members of The Brethern at Pyramid Ale House and then off to dinner!!
I will post more later!!
The picture above is of the good looking part of our Portland friends at the lats and Atts party last summer
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