We arrived at the boat on Saturday, a beautiful but cool and windy day. It was time to begin unpacking and putting things away. Sounds boring but was fun, especially filling all those little cabinets and drawers that we never had with our old boat.
A number of our dock mates were either already there or arrived a little later on Saturday. Everyone was doing the same thing: cleaning, packing things away and catching up after a long winter.
We fired up the fridge, which amazingly, worked just fine. The hot water heater made hot water. The AC heated the cabin and switched to cooling when it was supposed to. In fact, just about everything worked as it should.
We spent some time on the bridge to continue to learn more about our Standard Horizon GPS chart plotter. Works fine but we'll need some more time underway to get comfortable with it.
About 4:30 PM, the dock mates began to assemble on the dock. After a while, work stopped completely, the chairs were drawn up and the wine and cheese appeared. I sounded the air horn at 5 PM but cocktail hour was already underway. Eventually, we all had dinner together at the marina restaurant, which was pretty good.
Thanks to Lou & Janie, Bob & Diane and John H for being very entertaining dinner companions. After dinner, we headed back to Act Three and had a wonderful night's sleep in our very comfortable v-berth.
On Sunday, we really got down to work. We stowed the fenders and extra shore cord, mounted towel holders in the head, hooked up the cable TV and installed a wood post to hold our hose and shore cord.
At this point, we think we're about ready to begin enjoying the summer!
We're REALLY looking forward to the dueling airhorns at 5PM. Rob finished the installation of wash down hose, the windlass, and bottom paint. He's going to install the electric-flush for the commode and then I can start putting the cabin together in preparation for our trip to the marina. See you soon!
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