Opening Day Cont'd: First Boat In

     "'cuz it feels so empty without me..."
                                               -Eminem






     It is sunny but chilly down on the dock.  The wind is up, the lake is rolling ....

...and the lake is low, even lower than the hydrographic stats suggest. The culvert on the left in the picture below should be half filled with water.  Instead it is high and dry.

 This could simply be wind related, but the water level at the dock is at least a foot lower than it was at the end of October last year.

One soul was hardy enough to get his boat into his slip.  You can juuuuust barely see that boat, out there in the distance, from the shore end of the Dock:

   Waaaaayyyyyy out there....
it looks like....
Yep.

George Too II   gets the award for first splash!

    James has been busy over the winter, fixing and fiddling and tuning and generally pimping his ship.

More on George Too II  in our Refit Rollcall.

     Last, a poignant still life of our summer home.

    


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OPENING DAY!!!!!!!!!!!!!

     "We'll have a good time baby, don't you worry..."
                                                  -The Pointer Sisters








     The Marina is now open!

     Current conditions:
 Sunny, but cold (2 Celsius, expected high this afternoon 10 Celsius), Wind northeast 15 knots increasing to 20 near noon then veering to east 20 this evening. Wind veering to southeast 20 overnight then increasing to 25 near noon Saturday. Wind diminishing to south 15 Saturday evening.

      While many of us are frantically working to finish refit projects so that we can get our boats in the water (ahem), some boats will be getting hull-wet today.  Jordan fired me an e-mail alerting me that "Tempus Fugit" will be splashing today, heading over to Dock Two, and I expect that James will likely back "George Too"  into his slip today.  Who else is going in today?

     I'll be down at the Dock later today getting some pictures and maybe sitting at the slip enjoying a beer.  Anybody gonna join me?

    Wait a minute, I see somebody looking puzzled.  You have a question?

    "What about 'Whiskeyjack' and 'Legacy', Mr. Eager-Beaver-Can't-Wait-Until-Spring-Boat-Obsessed-Blogger-Guy?"  you ask.

    Uh...

    (Yeah, don't think I can't see you ungrateful wretches out there snickering at the fact that I'm sitting here writing instead of prepping our boats for their spring debuts.)

     The weather has not cooperated for bottom painting and bottom fairing both boats.  Regarding Whiskeyjack,  I also have some touch up work to do on the brightwork,  I have some cabin projects to finish up and a solar panel to install on the davits, all of which are easier on the hard.  Legacy's punchlist is shorter but more time consuming- LOTS of varnishing brightwork, laying new vinyl on the cockpit sole, drivetrain maintenance, reinstalling fittings, etc.   None of which can happen until the tarps come off and the tarps won't come off until the weather is warmer and dryer.

 I will show off some of my projects in the upcoming "Refit Rollcall" post.


Pics to follow later today.





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