A great weekend on A-Dock

 Preparations for the weekend began mid-week with a message from dockmate Diane suggesting a pot luck supper on A-Dock. The responses came in fast and by Friday, virtually everyone had volunteered a dish. For Act Three, Frances offered up a dish or two while Bill monitored the messages to make sure that the minimum nutrition requirements were met. Hey, someone has to do it.

Food aside, we got lots of small things accomplished. On Saturday, the cockpit was cleaned thoroughly with the thought that PolyGlo could be applied on Sunday. In between cleaning sessions, we started the engines and the twin sisters came to life without complaining.  We let them come up to temperature and then shut them down.

During another break from scrubbing the gelcoat in the cockpit with a ScotchBrite pad, we went up to the bridge to see what we could do to get the Standard Horizon GPS Chartplotter to talk to the Furuno radar. Both had worked fine independently but refused to interconnect. We finally resorted to the documentation for each of the two units and discovered which NMEA sentences the radar needed to display a waypoint or a complete route as set on the chartplotter.  After the few minutes needed to change to data being sent by the GPS, the radar lit up with exactly the info we needed. Cross that problem off our list.

Saturday night offered a wonderful dinner contributed by everyone on the dock. Good conversation plus good food has become what we associate with A-Dock.

Sunday morning was a little cool and damp but Frances decided to cook us a real breakfast, knowing that this would be the first time we had used the stove and the toaster oven, which she had contributed to the boat.

I waited, ready for one of Frances' award winning cheese omelets.

Small Galley? Yes, but it didn't stop Frances!

Time to let the chef dig in! Everything works, so now it's time to get ready for Block Island.