Been reading all your (N. Cal) whining about the weather this past week -- we've had mostly sun, thanks very much (although it is raining here in Wrangell AK 99929 this morning, Saturday 4 June). Guess it's inside projects today -- plenty to do in the engine room.    

This past week we've been just plugging away boat at work.  Bit-by-bit the boat's coming back together: engine room tool chests adequately secured and tools put away; eng rm bilge pump float switch re-mounted a bit higher than originally -- hopefully will correct the vapor lock that's been plaguing me there -- still have to reconnect all the wiring and re-mount the unit; recovered our dinghy "JJ Duckling" and kayaks from the boatyard where they've been stored since February. Towed the 3 kayaks in a line from the travel lift dock down to Heritage Harbor where DE is currently docked. Lots of cleaning boatyard muck...

We've reclaimed the cockpit, aft deck and swimstep areas of the boat. Dinghy is mounted; decks power-washed; deck lockers emptied, cleaned and re-packed; things are finally finding their way back to "their places with bright shiny faces".  Forward cabin is partially unburied; pilot house is largely cleared. 

I spent yesterday working on our 2 folding mountain bikes; they live on deck  during the summer when underway (and the salt air takes it's toll). 

Dot spotted a notice on the grocery store bulletin board for some used high pressure sodium "crab lights" which I've been wanting to mount to light up the boat when we're transiting offshore at night; hopefully keep us from getting run down by big offshore traffic. When in the Bering Sea and crossing the Gulf of Alaska during our crossing from Hong Kong in 2009, I realized I could see the glow of the HPS lights on fishboats, over the horizon, before I picked them up on radar!  The other reason is running the various Inside Passage channels in darkness, as we did this past winter -- lots of debris in the water that could not be seen to avoid at night. We're buying the used lights but will store them until later in the year when I'll figure how to mount them. Most likely we'll run them off the genset underway. 

Lots of work on fishboats going on around us everyday. The season opens next week and one or two jobs rapidly become a dozen when in the course of fixing one thing, others issues are uncovered. "It's a boat!"

Interesting to see some of these guys on their boats, still active in their 70s and even 80s... my new heroes. 

It has been 3 months since the shoulder surgery and I think today is the day it 'turned the corner' as far as approximately normal use and pretty tolerable discomfort without resorting to painkillers! Thanks to the hard-working physical therapists in Hong Kong and Seattle and mostly of course due to Dorothy forcing me to do my daily PT exercises by withholding food... or something...

Had a lovely phone call from an old friend, and former DA from our county. Always good to reminisce about the good (bad?) old days in Sonoma County.  

Saw yesterday that the former AK governor in the course of her not-a-campaign-tour campaign tour stopped in Boston to explain to folks there that Paul Revere road his horse to ring bells warning the British that the colonists wouldn't allow their rights to be trampled.... huh?!