Nov 21, 2010
Time to haul to boat
Morning came early as we left the house at 6am to meet our friend Mike at Shelter Island, we dropped off the car and Mike kindly drove us to Point Roberts Marina. The ropes were frozen so it took us a little longer to untie the boat but managed to leave at 8am. By 11:15am we are at Steveston, cleared customs and picked up Fish and Chips from Dave's, mmmmm good! Another couple hours and we were at Shelter Island, phew.. the lift dock is empty!! The minus temperatures made us appreciate the enclosure as we were able to stay way more comfortable that we would have without it. Since it was going on the hard and we were experiencing minus temps we empties the water tank and blew out the lines.....good thing as it reached -7 overnight.
Nov 22, 2010
The next morning we arrived at the boat at 7:15, turned on the furnace to warm up the inside. The boat yard staff were great, but no power washing today given the freezing temp! To our surprise the bottom looked pretty good other than a few mussels on the keel. Our plan is to have it on the hard for a couple of weeks at this point. Today we are supposed to get the variprop and dripless installed, I wonder if that will happen as it is freezing out ther?? Alas, Sara and Mark arrived around 12 noon to install the dripless, thru hull (ready for the water maker) and propeller. With the wind chill it was around -17 degrees...brrrr! Mark showed me how to service the prop which was great...thanks Mark! By 4pm everyone was gone and time to make sure the heat is on in the boat to prevent any freezing before heading home.