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Good morning.

On the hook.
On the hook.

Since the water is too cold, noone will be taking the usual photo-from-a-distance of the boats on the raftup.  This one from the cockpit will have to serve.  Port to starboard:  Zen, Nirvana & Sapphire.

One of those days.

Nirvana mainsail.

Let’s see… up at the crack of dawn to prepare for the day’s meetings.  Back-to-back meetings from about 6AM to 10PM.  Dropped the gallon of milk on the floor, which exploded all over the kitchen, while on a conference call.  Heated meeting discussions. New technical problems with several projects underway.  HR issues.

I need to find my happy place.

On a positive note 🙂  the mainsail is ready to be picked up.  So, Monte headed there this afternoon to pick it up and rig it back on the boat.  I would love to go help, but it’s not going to happen today, so I think Kurt is meeting him there to lend a hand.  The picture above is one of the mainsail on Nirvana the first time we took her out, on the seatrial.  The repairs were to replace the luff tape (the black tape that runs up the mast side of the sail).  It should raise and lower much more easily now, as the last one was frayed and broken in places.

Here’s to a better day, tomorrow.

The old and the new.

We’re gonna do it.

The marine survey was scheduled for today.  I took the day off work so that I could be there with Monte for it.  The marine surveyor was fantastic.  He spent about 10 hours on the boat with us, inspecting virtually everything on the boat while explaining how everything worked as he went along.  He didn’t find much wrong, and no surprises.  So, pending getting the final report from him, I think we will be upgrading from our beloved, homebuilt wooden catboat that we’ve been playing on for the last 8 years, to a big-kid, plastic boat that we will be enjoying for the next 15 or so years.  🙂

Moving on up?

Cupholder II?

We went to the lake today early, to finalize an offer we’ve made on a new boat.  It’s not a done deal – we still have to take it out for a sea trial and have a marine surveyor inspect it, but if there are not problems found, this may be our new ride in a couple weeks.

We have infinitely enjoyed sailing and playing aboard our unique, homebuilt wooden catboat for eight years.  We treasure the friends we have made at the marina in those 8 years, too.   We are not ones to make big decisions lightly.  But we recently decided to make a move up to a bigger boat, and this is the one that presented itself.    If it doesn’t work out, no biggie, we’ll wait for the next one that feels right.  If it does work out, I look forward to another 10-15 years of fun aboard this boat on our beautiful lake with our sailing friends.

I’ll keep you posted!