Saturday October 27: Back to Florida

Trevi is still not very big!

We arrived back in Port Charlotte, FL on Wednesday after having a few last days with Matt and Wendy in San Diego.

London -    10 months old

And a day to drive to LA to visit Becky and her puppies! For a change we were around and able to help her with a project. Doesn't happen very often so we took advantage of the day.

Mostly it was Steve and Becky working while I got to play with Trevi (2 months old) and London (10 months old).

Someone had to watch the dogs, right?!!

We airbnb'd a condo for the week - 10 minute drive from the boat.

It was a lesson we learned well a number of years ago - don't try to live on the boat while trying to work on it - especially if it's after the boat has sat for a while!

So nice to be able to come 'home' and clean up and relax after a day at the boat.






It's always a gamble when we leave the boat for 6 months as we never know what condition the boat will be in when we return.

And apparently we still don't know what to do to avoid the dirt and mildew ......

Somehow we were not expecting what we found - the outside of the boat was super dirty. And this is with the boat under cover. Maybe next year we'll try leaving it uncovered????




Regardless, Steve made great progress Friday by getting the flybridge and sides from the walkaround deck up cleaned up.


What a difference when he was finished!

Meanwhile, I worked inside wiping down the main cabin - using a knife to clean out between the slates in the cupboard doors. All of the mini-blinds will be taken down and cleaned but that may wait until we get to Banana Bay.


Today Steve tackled the sides of the hull. Using dishsoap, lots of muscle power, a brush and a long handled microfiber scrubhead, he was able to do both sides of the hull. He said this boat gets bigger every year :-)

Definitely not a fun job .....

I continued inside focusing in on the aft cabin after finishing up the main cabin.

Are we having fun yet???





What a difference after two days of work!!

I swear if this boat doesn't kill us, it will cure us:-)


I neglected to mention that we actually acquired some new skills while at Matt and Wendy's - we took a class on making clay things on a wheel!










Lots of fun - mugs, bowls and cups. Wendy will pick them up for us as we ran out of time to do the glazing. No problem - we'll be back out there in December.

More fun stuff? Becky will have her first on-screen credit as a co-producer of iZombie!!!!

Although she has been involved in many shows (working with her former employer Warner Bros current programming) this will be her very first on-screen credit.



We're so excited for her and can't wait until the first episode (of the 5th season) of iZombie - it won't be until 2019 on the CW network. We will be watching and taping!!!