January 14, 2012

Saturday, January 14, 2012

Never left the boat today.  I don’t know how this happens but there always seems to be a days work aboard if I don’t have a handle on keeping things organized on a minute by minute basis.  Seriously!  I say I never left the boat but actually, that’s not true.  I climbed in the dink to find the leaks and while in there smearing joy all over it, I decided to just clean it.  I did find both leaks but it’s Fred’s dink so I will wait for him to do the repairs.  We discovered that Magic erasure works really well at cleanings so we thought it may work on this also.  It is magic for sure.  Now that it is somewhat better looking we will just have to wait and see if a bleach product disintegrates the rubber.  While emptying it of everything in there except me and the motor, I dropped the cooler into the water as I tried to lift it onto the boat, all by myself.  Clinging on to the cooler, and the dink, I was happy to see I was still tied to Casa Mare while yelling for help, although floating as far away as the current would take me.  The gas can as well as the oars were already on board Casa Mare so there would have been no way back except to swim or...send out an SOS.  Note to myself...never assume the dink is going to stay next to the boat while both are separately on water to transport items from one to another.  It’s not like being on land.  Fred rescued me.  (I can guarantee he wouldn’t have jumped in to come get me though).  He does draw the line at times.  This would have been one of those times.  Fred did some caulking repairs, the first one being to repair the caulking gun, Fred just bought, and it broke the first time he used it.  He said he made it into an $8.00 gun instead of a $4.00 gun and I asked if the duck tape he had to wrap around it to keep the caulk in the chamber made it a $9.00 gun.  Guess I got too much sun being out there for a few hours and developed a headache.  I should have guessed, the weather is changing with the “big blow” as they call it approaching, and I am a living barometer and can almost predict a weather front moving in a few days before it arrives.  That pretty much shot the day for me.  Since we moved, around the corner, I can’t get internet  so things are backing up here on my computer.  I am starting to get an attitude about Georgetown.  I need church and a meeting!