Monday 1/2/12 Life in the Boatyard

Today was a day of sanding, varnishing, and general work in the Boat Yard.

Wayne continued working on sanding & varnishing the rub rails topside. He cut out a piece of wood to replace the piece of floorboard we left at home (wouldn’t be normal if we remembered everything). I sanded parts of the floor, worked on routing out the floorboard that he cut (it sits around the mast), then staining and varnishing it. It’s not good to have a hole in the floor you can step into in the dark. So this piece, while it doesn’t quite match the teak floor, will do until we can get the other piece back to the boat.

During breaks, I kept going to the office to check to see if our bottom paint came in. At the end of the day after chatting with Ann I discovered that “duh…” today was the holiday for New Years. So… no deliveries, no mail, no banks open today. I asked her about emergency numbers to call in the event of an emergency and got the local sheriff’s phone number (597-2101). I’d told her why I wanted it (last year with the gas in the water, this year the couple’s spat/fight). After telling her what happened, she thought I should tell Scott about it since I hadn’t seen the young man involved, only the young lady. Maybe Scott could go and check on them to make sure everything was okay!

Temperatures are supposed to dip down to the 20’s tonight as the cold front comes through. Brrrr… time to get the snuggies out… If the temps stay low, we may not be able to get the varnishing and bottom paint done on time to be launched. We’ll see. It’s Dee Steffano’s for pizza and beer/wine for dinner tonight.