Balh…blah….blah!
02 November 2010
• Halifax, NS
by Mike/Brrrrrr!
There is most definitely a winter chill in the air. Brrrrr! Where is global warming when you need it?
I have decided that I am going to enter my cloud period in painting. Clouds seem to be ideally suited to watercolours and there certainly is enough variety to keep me busy. However, they would become rather boring so after I get good at it they will become a background to other subjects such as boats, shorelines or cityscapes.
Our next maintenance project is the control and display unit for the AirX wind generator that we bought last December, and e10, I think it's called. I'm not sure what happened but suddenly the meter display just doesn't work and the tech that I called tells me that I have to send it in for them to repair. It will cost me the courier fees but the rest is covered under warrantee, which is pretty good considering I suspect that it is something that I did that caused the problem and I was straight with them about that.
This morning I was a little worried that Peri might have a relapse or something but no, he was still his old self, a happy bouncy little hound, enjoying life and bossing his people around.
We are beginning another triage of stuff, deciding what we are going to take back to the boat of the things that we brought back in the spring. Over the past two cruises we started with way too much stuff, (dare I qualify that further?) crap on the boat. Last year we emptied several lockers and were able to move some things off the bunks and into storage. Plus we were able to find more space below decks to put little used but essential stuff/crap away. Still, although we have space for six to sleep in ready made bunks we usually only have our own available and maybe one other as there is always something jammed onto the others as an available flat surface. When we have visitors there is a mad rush to clear a cobin. My goal is to have our middle cabin, the one with the bunk beds against the hull set up as an office. The bunks would be empty of stored "stuff" and available for visitors or even better for the off watch member of our regular crew (Barb and me) to sleep. It is in the centre of the boat and as such has the least motion when we are under way. I also want the V-berth forward to be available and not have "stuff" stowed on it. That is usually the place where visitors, especially visiting couples, would prefer to sleep. It will be so nice to not have to move "stuff" out of the way to get something that is right there just behind something that has been dumped there as a convenience.
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