Some Sunny, Some Gray, February Slides Past

Ah, like the gently flowing Caloosahatchee, a month slides past without moving the boat... but of course we have these good intentions. Just not a lot of time to carry them out. The weather has been alternately cloudy and sunny, cool and warm. Today the weather cam overlooking our marina shows this:

Which sums it up well, clouds and a hint of sun.

Things we need to do re: boat
1) CLEANING!!! Exterior needs complete clean & polish
2) Dinghy repair: leak developed in front tube, needs to be found and patched.
3) CLEANING!!! Grab a bucket, your bleach and a hazmat suit, it's time to clean out the fridge...
3) haul, power wash, bottom paint
4) relocate to a less costly marina

This is just what's bugging *me* at the moment, Derek maybe has his own list with some specific maintenance items.

Aside from the boat, we are excited about a first visit from Grandma, and planning for Grant's next school year.

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Vessel Name:	Parallax
Vessel Make/Model:	37' Prout Snowgoose (1982)
Hailing Port:	Pensacola
Crew:	Derek, Heather and Grant
About:	Two astronomers, looking for variable stars and adventure. After cruising the Caribbean aboard S/V Paradox for 18 months in the early 90s, the crew swallowed the anchor and had a child, always planning their next Great Adventure: cruising under sail with Grant, showing him the world. [...] More
Extra:	We knew that if we ever got a catamaran, we'd want a name to celebrate her twin-hulledness. Parallax is seeing the same thing from two slightly different points of view, which with our two eyes is what gives humans our depth perception. It's also a good metaphor for one of the benefits of marriage. [...] It is also one way astronomers find the distances to nearby stars -- only in that case, the baseline is not our eyes' separation, but the diameter of Earth's orbit! More