We have some work to do on the boat to get ready. Our friends at the marina are involved by sharing opinions about this generator or that windlass. Everything goes in the plan. It makes for fun conversations. Kermit called me the other day on his way to the boat to ask, "How much did we set aside for the canvas?"
The adventure becomes more real every day. On Monday we pulled the boat out of the water and took it to Shrocks Marina on Marblehead, its winter home. Mr. Shrock put it in the building with plenty of room around it for people to install the stuff on our project list.
The best part was seeing Brad from Pfleger Marine bringing the HUGE box with the new generator! It is bright shiny red. All the men in the marina gatherered around the big box and ooohed and ahhed over the thing. It was pretty exciting! So exciting that I forgot to take a picture! But trust me, it was exciting!!
They used a fork lift to put the generator on the back deck before the boat went into storage. Brad will install it over the winter.
So we have order to the planning - a least a little - enough to keep me calm. First the generator installed (the messiest and most complicated project), then the windlass and swim platforms in about December, the electronics in January/February, then the canvas for the upper bridge in March. In the meantime we will have the interior cushions and curtains rebuilt at the Amish sewers in the winter. We get to check off our progress and I get to worry over budgets! Everyone is happy and excited!!
We leave on 10/26 for the Ft. Lauderdale Boat Show, the largest in North America. We will spend most of our time in the big tents in the middle of all those boats looking for bargains. We need a bunch of little things plus the new electronics package!
If you click on the "location" tab on this post I think you can see Shrock's Marina on the satillite map!
