The adventures of the merry band of misfits who call Dock Six in Port Dover their summer home. Boat repair, boat maintenance, boat building, boat cruises, boat philosophy, boat recipes and just plain boats are the focus, fueled by good food, good friends and cheap booze. Welcome!
"The morning was grey, but I had the motivation..." -Billy Joel
It was a wild weekend, weather-wise, on the Dock. Did we get rain? Yep. Wind? Oh, yeah. Hail? Uh-huh. Sleet? Affirmative. Snow? SNOW???!!!???
See that mast out there, across the fairway from Dock Six? That boat is not supposed to be there. More on that later.
The wind had died down by Monday, allowing the water that had been blown across the lake to return.
The water level is still low, but Gavin might be able to get his boat into his slip (under sail, as he will smugly remind me) with the centerboard down.
Remember that mast in the first picture of this post? Tempus Fugit is the boat to which it is attached. While transiting to their slip on dock two (note lower case "d" and "t"- not that there is anything wrong with other docks, but they are docks, not Docks, and most certainly not Dock Six), Tempus stalled and failed to restart. Andy made for the closest dock, and tied up on dock one. Andy sent me a video of the boat dock-dancing on Sunday morning. Later that day, the springline snapped. As Andy said, "It was wild."
Last, any birdwatchers reading this? What is this bird called?
Whatever it is, it doesn't look happy about the snow.
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