Wednesday October 17: Fozzi - the Boat Dog!!!

Fozzi is now an official boat dog :-) He needs a bit of help getting on/off the boat but personally I think he's faking not being able to step aboard. No matter - Steve is happy to carry him on and off of the boat!

After dropping Matt at the airport yesterday, we headed off to the boat (now at Matthew's Marina so no stress with making the ferry each day).

It's amazing the number of things we want to get done and the seemingly limited time in which to do them.

Yesterday, Steve took care of getting the bikes back to working order. It's amazing how quickly they rust in this saltwater environment.

Plus it has been 4 months since we have really traveled on Yesterday's Dream (one day to Dowry Creek, two days there and one day back excepted). It's hard to believe it has been that long......

I spent the time putting a coat of Cetol on the lower teak railing and rub rail (which describes what I do when coming into the dock too often - rubbing the rail :-) ).

Of course the only picture Steve took was when I tried out the hammock for a whole 2 minutes!!

One more coat of cetol and the job will be done. It's nice to be able to get a couple of coats on before we leave on Sunday as the longer it has to dry the harder it becomes.

It has been too long since we've redone the teak for sure. It's starting to look like someone really cares about this boat :-)

So today when we headed out we thought maybe we could get some work out of Fozzi. It didn't take long to figure out that was just not going to happen! He was very content to just lay around and do some sleeping :-)

More cleaning took place - Steve took all of the mini-blinds in the main cabin down. We're just going to replace them as they have yellowed quite a bit since we installed them 5 years ago. The 3 in the aft cabin were ok so I just cleaned them instead.

Fortunately they are fairly easy to take down and put back up even though the one above the desk proved to be a real pain in the neck.

There was still some hope that we would get some work out of Fozzi.....

but he obviously just was having too much fun stretching out on the floor and snoozing!

Steve continued working on the lazarette hatch cover. The edges were sealed with an epoxy so no water would be adsorbed into the wood. Next step was to paint the top then screw in the hinges.

Tomorrow when the silicon has set, he'll tighten the screws - then it will be ready to be painted. Long project with a successful completion. Good job, Steve!!

Coming back to Matt and Wendy's is like Christmas somedays! We have really taken advantage of being able to order anything and everything that we need or have needed for our continued travels.

It's nice to have a place to send things and KNOW we'll be there to get them. We always the option of having things sent to a post office or marina but that is usually dependent on getting where we think we will at a given time. Much easier this way!

Last project for today (to be finished tomorrow) is to reorganize the 8 storage tubs which are kept under the dinette seat. We first did this 3 years ago - along with a spreadsheet detailing what is where. Definitely a must for finding a particular tool or whatever on this boat.

We brought all of the containers back to Matt and Wendy's just to have more room. How nice it will be to have the spreadsheet accurate again!

Tomorrow: a trip to New Bern for a physical therapy session for Steve's arm and a trip to Lowe's for a few more things to complete a few projects we want to finish before we leave on Sunday.