The Annapolis Sailboat Show
11 October 2009 | Weems Creek, Annapolis, MD
Steve and I don't need to buy another cruising book to realize that you should avoid going to "town" in order to stay within our planned budget. However, this was a planned stop and we needed to buy such items like a new motor for the dinghy (our car) and an EPIRB (a necessary gismo that sends out our longitude and latitude etc., just in case we need to abandon ship) properly known as an emergency position-indicating radio beacon. Other items bought were a folding ladder (so that we can get out of the water into the boat), a booster captains chair (so that I can see while sitting at the helm rather than standing all the time), 3 inflatable fenders (so that we can dump the deflated ones we got with the purchase of Lion's Paw), a salt water wash-down pump -we've bought a Johnson brand this time- (our Flojet FL40 which has already been replaced once has broken again - so it's junk as far as we're concerned), odds and ends like Garhauer swivel blocks and deck cleats and rope to hook up the Monitor Wind Vane etc. etc. My next job is to tally up all of our expenses since heading from Parry Sound and see where we stand.