After three days on the road including near white out snow, we made it to Why Knot. The temperature hovered around freezing and the wind was around thirty knots from the wrong direction. She is still winterized meaning, among other things, that there is no water aboard and won't be until the marina turns it on. That was planned for last week but winter is refusing to let go. Knowing that Bear would go aboard without complaint but would be miserable until WK came fully alive, we took a nice, warm hotel for a few days so I could bring Why Knot back to life. Smooth move, huh?

The other benefit to the interim quarters is room to unload her without shuffling crew around as I dug out the long term stuff needed last summer for the voyage into New England. Once six boxes (storage bins) of spare parts, various redundant articles of clothing and the body sized spinnaker were removed, I discovered we have an aft cabin and midship head. Although I am not fully done unloading gear for storage in a nearby rented place, WK has risen a full inch in the water. We will remove the deck fuel cans (six), a few more storage bins and related unnecessary gear for the summer.

So,here is a partial list of immediate projects

-replace the midship head
-redo the toe rails and deck wood stripped for the New England voyage
-replace all hoses on the engine
-replace the engine compartment blower

These are the major items including a new mainsail. Before we get out of the slip, the bilge coolie, that would be me, has work to do.