Saturday, March 29, 2014

 This was our morning sunrise in Kilkenny, GA

 Storms are getting ready to come in, I think ??!!!??

Storms never made it and it cleared up nicely !

Well I for one was ready to pull anchor and leave this morning but Bob said he would rather stay another day and get some work on the boat done.  So I agreed nonchalantly...

We had howling winds all night, a few sprinkles of rain, and a lot of rockin' and rollin' !  Once morning came it all came to an end except for the clouds so that was good.  

Bob worked on "Awards" again for the fire company, replaced the second dinghy rope clutch (this one broke a couple of weeks ago), fixed the port head overhead lights (they would not turn off even once the power was disconnected from them!  So he replaced the connections and somehow or another that fixed it???).

I did the craziest thing....I tied a rope from one end of the boat (on the outside hull) and then tied the dinghy to the rope so I could clean the sides of the boat!  Now where that came from I'm not sure!  Anyway, I did get one side of the boat cleaned, the inside of one hull, half of the inside of the other hull done before the sky became really dark and the cool winds picked up.  It was then I decided I better get out of the water.  I tied up the dinghy to the back of the boat and that's when the weather decided to calm a little, so I continued cleaning the back steps, inside of back of both of the back hulls, and the top half of the back of the boat before I had to stop again.  This time thunder was heard in the background.  So I get everything out of the dinghy and come inside, take a shower, and decided to wait out the storm.  I waited, and waited, until I finally took a nap, got back up and never went back outside.  The storms never came but the current here is so wicked, it runs about 3 knots, and my body was still exhausted from trying to keep the dinghy next to the boat, laying on the top of the dinghy hanging on to Storymaker so I could clean the water line....I had quite the workout today!  I will finish the boat somewhere else!  At least I got one smile off one of the hulls ! (smile = ICW dirty water leaving a light brown film on the front of the boat hulls)  That's how other boaters know that you did the ICW versus the ocean!

To finish our day off we played cards and had ribs for dinner.  We even watched an episode of "Star Trek!"