Sunny spring days

A beautiful morning to do your Laundry

The local gang of bossy geese


Say you love me or I won't let you down!!

Man, what glorious weather we are getting! Today shone blue and warm, with little breeze....it was just picture perfect. Perfect for messing about in boats....sadly we weren't sailing, but just pottering about on deck was still lovely. I headed off to do the laundry. Now usually, I wouldn't be that keen to head off on a beautiful blue morning to do laundry, but.....the laundry room for our marina is a 5 min walk along the park next to Marina docks, it's a lovely walk. And while my laundry is on, for a whole $1 a load and .50 cents for 40 minutes in a dryer, I can sit on a park bench in the sun, right next to the laundry room, looking out at the boats, while sipping my iced tea and reading a book! It's a pretty sweet way to do your laundry.

Geoff, meanwhile was back on Sea Otter pottering about putting up a bracket to hold the extra anchor on the pushpit (stern) and putting the outboard on a bracket on the opposite side. When I got back, Geoff wanted me to haul him up the mast to put the lazy jacks back on (he had a change of mind about having the lazy jacks off or on) Lazy jacks are lines that allow the mainsail to fall more neatly into a pile when you drop the mainsail. We decided it could be pretty useful in strong conditions to have it neatly contained in a pile, than it flapping all over the boat. So in the fancy bosun's chair that came on the boat, Geoff entrusted me to haul him up to the top spreaders. Now... I have to behave, because years ago I teased him by saying I wouldn't let him down until he said he loved me!!! Then of course you can also let a person down in a jerky motion that bounces them about....bad Karen. But I'm older and better behaved now, so I was a good girl and smoothly took him up and down.

The boat is looking more organised and more seaworthy each day. Still waiting on a bit of gear to turn up, but hopefully in about 2 weeks we could head south towards San Diego.

It is 10.14pm (daylight saving started today) and Geoff is wide awake and pulling charts out to sort through what we have from the last trip and what we need to order. The TVs on and we're sort of watching 'Fargo' at the same time. The heater is also on and it is still 15 degrees outside. Maybe it's because we are both a bit nervous as a really bad virus has been going around, it is a nasty chest/bronchitis type virus that lays people up for two weeks. Both of our brokers are currently in the throes of getting over it. So were a tad nervous, if we got it, well....it would be pretty detrimental to our schedule of leaving. And we may have to just leave directly from here to the Marquesas's. So cross your fingers for us.

Now, you read that I mentioned Geoff is still awake and doing stuff??? Yep the old Geoff who'd be asleep on the couch at 8 pm seems to have faded into the past, the new Geoff is up reading or pottering about till much later. hmmmm, this no working must be agreeing with the old fella ;) He is less stressed, oh sure he tries to pretend he is stressed or worried about something on the boat, but you know he is just desperately trying to find something to be stressed about. This is the Geoff I sort of remember from 12 years ago...well maybe even more relaxed than back then!! But I am sure we will have plenty to worry about in the next 8 months. It could be weather related, anchorage related or just the stress of deciding which reef to go snorkel on!!