Updating the adventure
12 June 2012
• Shelburne NS
by Mike
Whew. It has been a little hectic over the last few days. I have a lot to catch up on.
First we have done some more work on the boat (Huzzah!) but as usual there is still a lot more to do. I have discovered that there is stuff that I will need some professional help for. For example figuring out the meter wiring for the engine. I would have thought that the end of the wire would go to either the hot or ground side, but nope, neither works. We are all cleaned up and ready to head out for a nice weekend or so at McNutts should we have some good weather in our future and I can start on some of the more major items in the evenings during the week.
Just this morning I went down to the club in my role of Manager of Public Works for a meeting with some of the club officials and discovered that there were two more US boats came in last night. The weather was totally calm and one of them lost their motor off Brazil Rock. The second cam along and helped to tow them into the harbour. The towing boat happens to be from Oxford Maryland, one of the spots that we would like to cruise to on our next trip south so I was able to get some initial local intel on places to go and things to see.
The club is sponsoring the Albacore Eastern Canada Regatta this fall and is planning to hold the Nationals next year so there are big doings going on down there. They have some great ideas for expansion both in facilities and in their sail training program. As it is they have already developed several young sailors at the national level and look well set to do more.
To more mundane things, we have added several more perennials to the garden and most of them seem to be coming along quite well. One of the peach trees seems to be struggling but the nursery has said that they’ll replace it so we can’t complain about that.
We have also heard that there is another film company coming to Shelburne to shoot a movie, this one called Adrift and they are casting for actors and crew today and tomorrow. Apparently it is a project for a film school from somewhere in Los Angeles so there are some folk here all atwitter. Who knows, maybe one of our neighbours will become famous overnight.
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