May 14, 2011

There hasn't been much to tell lately, the weather has been dismal and we have had the heat on constantly. The weather picked up slightly enough for us to take the dinghy out, Deason can pilot better than I can. He had the dinghy planing out in Vineyard Sound with Chris and Dahia. It was too cold for me out in the open water so we stayed in the harbor for our boat ride. Dahlia seemed to like it, she wanted to stay in the dinghy for another ride.
The only other thing that has been going on is these tree swallows that have made a nest in the sailboat that is moored near us, and sometimes come and sit on our lifelines. The birds are cute, but not that exciting....unless you are under 2yrs old!

May 3, 2011

Deason was happy to get our tender back in the water, he and Chris went for a ride out of the harbor, they look a little cold coming back in.



We have spent the past few nights on the boat, and it is all starting to come together. It is truly amazing how much stuff we accumulated in the six months that we were at the condo. We passed on most of the extra stuff to others, and now we are just trying to get the rest organized and stored on the boat.
Deason has got right back into the swing of things here at MacDougalls. Our first day moving stuff onto the boat, he went out on a sea trial with Boston Yacht Sales and some of the guys from the marina. It was a beautiful 40ft Backcove, and when asked if he would take this boat if it was given to him, he said "maybe". He is picky when it comes to boats. He told me that he would like to trade our boat in for a center console. I asked him "where would we sleep?", he said "you can sleep in the head." Hopefully, it never comes to that!

Apr 26, 2011

Cleaning...packing....moving....unpacking....cleaning! That will be the next few days. We are all looking forward to getting onto the boat, our new slip is great. We are at the end of the basin, and it should be nice and quiet there! As you can see the weather has been pretty grey, but at least the temps have come up a bit!

Apr 24, 2011

Happy Anniversary! Ten wonderful years, where does the time go?

Apr 22, 2011- Back in the water

NFG is in the water! Thank goodness we got the last hatch back on last night, otherwise it would have been really difficult to get under the boat to re-install it. I really hope the new gaskets we put on them make a difference. Needless to say, salt water inside the boat is never a good thing!
We only have 7 more days before we will be on board, I just hope the weather starts to cooperate a little more, so we can start moving and cleaning without getting rained on.

Apr 18, 2011

Cheeeeeeese!

This is our last day here, I am looking forward to getting home. Chris has had quite a week back in Falmouth. He has been working on replacing some of the seals on a few of our hatches, and just about everything that could have gone wrong, did go wrong. The hatch frame wouldn't come apart on one hatch, a new seal that was put on one window riped as he tried to place it back in the frame, then after the new seal finally arrived the glue that was needed went missing. Not to mention that Falmouth had torrential rains and flooding this week. Hopefully, this trend of misfortune will end when we get home!

Apr 16, 2011

I am not quite sure why, every time I come to Florida I think I am tougher than the sun. For some reason I get the idea that my legs never need sunscreen, and now I am paying the price....Ouch!

Deason and Grammy tried to catch us some dinner at the pier, but the fish weren't biting! We did see lots of dolphins swimming around, so they must have been eating all the fish we were trying to catch.