This is the City of Marathon Municipal Marina
Here we begin our blog. We have been here for 3 weeks already and we are loving the warm temperatures in the 70's most of the time. We keep hearing the horror stories of snow and cold back home in Maine and that makes us know that we did the right thing in moving aboard and sailing to the Keyes! We have made a lot of adjustments to the the boat to make it comfortable and safe for us. The first thing was 4 trips up to the top of the mast for Billy to get the right bulb in the anchor light and mast head light as well as run a line down the back stay for the flag. That being done we installed our composting toilet, put in a bildge pump and a salt water wash down pump. We have gotten the fresh water tanks working well and that makes most of the big projects done.
As anyone that is familiar with boats knows, the projects are never really done so now we are planning a cleaning of the outside hull before going back north in a few weeks.
Billy has just completed a scuba diving course and became certified on Friday of this week. He and our friend Peter Bugg on s/v Kinvara did the class together and enjoyed it immensely.
Here are Peter and Bill toasting to a task completed!
Wow! You have really done some big things. The least of which would be four trips to the top of the mast. Makes mowing the lawn seem a little tame.
ReplyDeleteBe sure to let us know when you will be through the next time you need a snow fix.
That sounds like a lot more fun than snow blowing the driveway, shoveling snow off the roof or filling the washer fluid to keep the road mess from blinding us on the way to work!
ReplyDeleteWe will toast you remotely as the only sun screen we are applying is the wool hat pulled tightly around our frozen ears! Cheers!
I now see that you are in Marathon moving North. Your suite awaits.
ReplyDeleteNot many birds in the flyway so far. Do you or Bill have any idea what these little birds are? They were all over the river on Sunday.
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I don't think they were one of the Duck family; small & black.Not a good picture, but as close as I could get.