Buzzzzzzzzz!

Wrinkles getting placed on the hard.

The joyful sounds of cruising when your boat is on land getting prepped for another year. The sweet irritating drone of sanders, shop vacs and buffers fills the air here in Charlotte Harbor Boat Storage. Mike is contributing his share to the symphony with a random orbital buffer while Brenda adds the delightful alto voice of her pad sander. Ahhh! Can't you just hear the music?

Brenda sanding away.

Our neighbors are working hard on their Westsail 32 in preparation for their 12th year of cruising. Dick and Libby are great boatyard neighbors as they smile, laugh and go about their work. We are glad we are getting this opportunity to get to know them.

Dick and Libby

We are 2/3 done with the hull buffing project and the teak sanding is just a day or so from being done. Then we will attack the varnishing, dinghy leak, weed shoe repair, cushion recovering, stainless cleaning, rubrail repair, blah, blah, blah........ Lots of work and sore muscles ahead, but we'll try to emulate our neighbors and go about the work like it is all part of the fun of cruising.

 

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Spa Time for Wrinkles

 

 

After a beautiful sail across Charlotte Harbor and a flawless lift-out, Wrinkles is settled on stilts waiting to be pampered.

 

 

It was just over a year ago when we met Wrinkles here, took care of some mechanicals and eagerly splashed her in the water. She took great care of us, and now it is her turn to get a make-over.

We will pull all the stainless rubrail off (all 200+ screws), polish that up, refinish the teak, buff out her sides and apply a few coats of bottom paint to her belly. Hopefully in two-to-three weeks she will be lifted back into the water for phase two of our adventure.....Florida Keys to the Bahamas. We have very fond memories of our first year out....can't wait to see what this next adventure will bring.

 

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Hurricane Matthew

Bad boy Matthew's track has shifted even farther west which means our area will likely see 30-50 mph winds and lots of rain. Current forecasts state a 30% chance we'll be within the area of high winds associated with Matthew. We'd rather be solidly tied in our Marina slip than on stilts in a work lot, so we've decided to wait out the storm here. It wouldn't make much sense to put Wrinkles on the hard during a storm that would keep us from doing the exterior work we plan on doing. Another week or so really doesn't make much difference in our travels which makes these decisions much easier.

Let's hope Matthew settles down and goes away.

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