They just didn't have time to pull it out and put it in the shed. The docks are thinning out, however. Pretty soon, they will be removing the docks, too.
It was a beautiful day here in Connecticut so we decided to do a little more work on our bow pulpit. If you've been following, we removed the anchor roller and little teak trip strips last weekend and it made sense to us, since the boat was still there and we could work on the pulpit, why not try to clean it up while we could still reach it?
There was lots of accumulated dirt under where the roller and the trim pieces had been fastened. We ran some 400 grit sandpaper over the pulpit and noticed that it was mostly just dirt. Then we squirted on some cleaner and scrubbed it with a brush. The results were okay. There was still some crap on the pulpit but we have to think that it will be covered with the anchor roller.
Before we started, we mounted our cam in its usual place on the bridge and unzipped the front window. The video that resulted (highly ended for length) is of almost no interest unless you know us, and even then, you might just nod off while watching it. But it was fun making it.
After that, we came home and did what most other property owners around here do at this time of year: raked leaves. We tried to make stop-motion video, but since Frances wasn't here to help, it wasn't the crazy Bill-runs-around the yard video that we had planned. More snore, but fun for us to watch when the snow is flying outside our kitchen window, as it soon will be.
On Sunday, we went to work on the teak trim strips that we had taken off the anchor pulpit. They were pretty well abused with lots of raised grain and embedded varnish and who knows what else.
We hit them with a belt sander and finished off doing the edges by hand. They will be fine once refinished.
The picture at the beginning of this chapter is of one of our vacuum bags. We love these things because all of our towels, pillows and other stuff are vacuumed down into a half-dozen easily storeable containers. What would fill both of our v-berths, sucks down to six bricks that can live in the bottom of a closet for the winter. Frances inserts a clothes dryer sheet into each one before compressing them.
The video is somewhat silly but, what the hell, it's just boating, off season. That makes us all a little crazy.
In the coming weeks, we'll get back to real boating.
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