A Lazy Tuesday

Slept in a bit today, and took our time getting going. I rummaged around in our luggage trying to bring a bit of order to the chaos. Remade the bed into a sofa sort of a thing. Gives us a place to sit, and makes the room look more tidy.

Around noon we painted the dinghy "yacht white" and gave the rest of the quart of paint to the yard, since we have no good way to store such a thing. (Earlier we gave half a box of bronze boat nails to one of the schooner captains for the same reason.) We made and effort to seal all of the seams and joins between sheets, as well as fill the edges of things where the plywood shows cracks. Mostly along the edges of the knothole fillers, and a few long wise cracks in the surface of the bottom. I get the job of painting around the name so as not to obscure it.

Spent time wandering around the yard watching other folk working. With a slightly windy, dry day lots of people were painting: several of the boats, the yard folk painting the dock house office, and the city crews repainting the fireplugs. I note that the crosswalks are almost invisible at this time of year, noticeable mostly by the marks along the curb indicating the ends. We wander along until we find one, then look at the local architecture until a break in traffic comes along. While the law says drivers have to stop for pedestrians in the cross walk, this early in the season most folks are out of practice.

A late cup of coffee and a half a sandwich at the Rockland Cafe, then off to the library for updates. I have a list of writing projects that I brought with me, and I may finally unwind enough to get started on some of them.

We packed quite a lot of the more fragile material with clothing to save space. We found the fleece lap throws last night, as well as getting the pillows pulled out of the boat between coats of paint, so we have a more comfortable bed and I was not cold at all last night. We are getting quite domestic in the loft. I have thoughts of consolidating and rearranging all of our stuff so we have fewer containers to handle when we move aboard.

For tomorrow: we expect the mounting brackets for attaching the reflector to the mast, and I may get the gear rearranged.