Having the boat in Kenmore is turning out to offer some real advantages. "When Mommy has girls night out plans we go to the boat with Daddy"!! Its amazing how enjoyable of an evening we can have with just a 10 minute drive to the Marina. Sunday we packed up our dinner, dvd's and headed to the boat. Conditions were a bit rainy so the first 1/2 hr was spent in the cabin with the dvd player on, appetizers out (I mean out and flying around the cabin..) and kabobs on the barbeque. We then decided to try out the fold down table mounted to the wheel housing, supported by the mizzen mast in the cockpit and the bimini to keep the rain off (all hands on deck please). The kabobs were delicious and enjoyed by all (especially Jackson)!
We then moved on to testing the turnbuckle covers which consisted of Jackson slamming them back and forth, up and down simulating a gale force wind apparently. After disrupting our neighbors in the Marina we decided they passed the test and that we should move onto cleaning up from the evening mess created. That task took all of about 1hr..
The evening ended with us packing an abandoned dock cart (half full of water) up the ramp to a covered overhang, flipping it up against the wall to get the rain out and being encountered by a local patron who complained that we didn't place the cart inside the storage shed (go figure). To avoid conflict we followed his direction and placed the cart inside as requested and discovered a hidden treasure inside the shed.... A commercial sized ice machine with free ice!!! Yes, it made my mouth water thinking about the Pina Coladas that will be flowing this year (with fresh ice of course)!! After the discovery the local patron then began to complain about how boaters forget to return the ice buckets after using. We decided he must have had a bad day (and a bit to much rum) and surely was referring to "power boaters" and not "sail boaters":>> He is now known as the "grumpy old man that lives on 200 dock".
The result was an amazing evening for the captain and his crew!
The result was an amazing evening for the captain and his crew!
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