Saturday May 4: Mmmm ... a Week at the Jib Room

So we've been here at the Jib Room (Marsh Harbor Marina) for a week now. A week of storms rolling through complete with rain and really nasty looking clouds.

It was definitely a number of days that being in and tied to a dock has been just fine :-)




Steve has managed to continue to work on the boat - some of the normal stuff like cleaning the stainless steel stays on the mast.

Seems like he just did this but the salt water air just takes it's toll quickly. Steve's solution to being able to reach the very top of the stay? Attach the brush to the end of the yardstick and then stand on top of the cooler :-)

The cleaner is a brush-on and then clean off with water. Which he did. But he'd really like to use the rub on kind. Like if he maybe used Randy and Cindy's cooler on top of his just maybe he could actually get his hands to the top of the wire :-)



Of course there is also the at least easier to reach stainless rail posts that needed cleaned again.


And at least we know his bones are good as he had one of those free bone density tests that comes with a fall on his bike ...... good thing he had his helmet on. Scraped up elbows and knees .... no snorkeling for several days to  give it a chance to heal. There are some nasty bugs in saltwater so best to stay out of it for a bit.

After the  storm the other day, the reward was a full rainbow! And as Cindy commented - even the purple was visible!

It's still warm here - just quite breezy.

So we get our weather forecast for several places (all of which never seem to agree!) including Windfinder.

I like it because it's very visual. The colors tell you how windy it will be and the arrows tell the direction from which the wind is blowing.

So today the wind was mostly from the south at 10 to 14 mph and gusts of 15 to 20. We don't like greens .... we like the very deep blue which is very light winds.

What is really nice is the week long overview that is circled in red. It's predicted to be a great week up through May 13th. Of course it will change but this gives us an idea of what is coming.

The boat will be stored in Marathon so at some point we will look to make the crossing back to Florida with a week or so to travel back to the Keys. For now? Enjoying the nice weather :-)