Tuesday March 29: Aft Cabin Finished - Preparing to Move On!

The aft cabin is now considered complete! I finished the area above the bed yesterday - what a difference. Remember the before? Here's the after :-)

Once the foam dried, I attached one edge of the ceiling material to the underside edge of the trim around the wall. This would let me pull the material tight when I stretched it across to the outside of the boat. I just used the trim piece that was already there to hold the outside edge of the material - used a lot of screws instead of the few nails to hold it though.

Trim the excess material - and done! Well mostly. The porthole needed some extra time but it turned out pretty well. Now if I only had remembered to close it before it rained last night!

Steve in the meantime was working on his bike. Seems the bearings were going in the rear wheel. That required two trips to Key Largo to a bike shop that we had ridden right by when we were at Pennekamp! Anyway, success in the end.

It's very humid and hot lately - time to start moving north. Probably will leave here on Saturday or Sunday. We'll miss Ty and Bonnie and Pam (the owner of the marina) - they have become good friends. It kind of supports the theory I have held for a long time: it's easier to find new friends that are already boaters than to turn current friends into boaters :-)