Holy doodles, this weather is irritating!!
29 June 2009
• RNSYS, Halifax, NS
by Mike
We have now had about a week and a half of really lousy weather. About the only good thing that I could say about it is that it isn't snow, but the wet is enough to drive you nuts if you are trying to get work done on the boat. I had thought that I could do work inside and I can, but I still need to get out to the dock to make saw cuts so there won't be sawdust all over the cabin, and that I have to wait for a break in the rainfall and madly dash out and make the cut hopefully before the rain starts again. We are making progress but a lot slower than I had planned. I have had a look at the long range forecast and it really doesn't look good - rain, thunderstorms, high wind all week and into the weekend. Maybe I'll delay the haul out until after Marblehead and put us on the cradle and do all the work in the yard over a period of time.
The dock is becoming quite international. Besides the French cat we now have a steel ketch from Ireland and an aluminum sloop from Britain which is just returning home after a trip from the North to the South Pole. These cruises make our little trips to Florida and the one this fall to Bermuda and the Virgin Islands seem quite tame by comparison. I think it would be the end if I was to suggest anything of the sort to the Admiral though. The dock staff here is quite right about this dock. We are getting to meet all of the really interesting folk that pass through.
On another topic, I am more than a little startled at the furor over Michael Jackson's passing. I guess there is a lot to be said in the old saying that everyone is a great guy after their dead. There is no doubt but that he made a major contribution to music and the music industry, but isn't he the same guy that managed to squeak his way out of a child molestation charge? Isn't he the same one who dangled his infant child out of a second story window for photographers? Isn't he the same fellow who consistently denied his obvious plastic surgery? I guess an artist is entitled to be weird, but what about the fans? Wasn't almost everyone lining up to condemn him? When he was on trial or when the press was vilifying him I couldn't remember a single voice sounding in his defence and now it's a veritable chorus of people wailing about how he changed their lives and how much they loved him. What a load. What hypocrisy! I like his music myself - a lot. But I didn't have much of an opinion of the human being. That said, just as with anyone else who has been taken before their three score and ten, it's a shame he's gone (correction to the quote thanks to Mr Irwin. See discussions).
Today I had hoped to be able to put in the shelves for the companionway stairs cupboards and we have bought some ½" good one side oak plywood to make the cupboard doors. All that was missing was the hinges and those we were able to pick up at one of the major hardware chains up at Bayer's Lake. Of course I forgot to get the necessary screws to continue the work past all the cutting so I'll have to wait 'till another day. Some of the folk that come into the Binnacle have a list for their projects. I guess I'll have to start doing the same.
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