Nor'easter

The sun has gone away again. We are sitting out a Nor'easter that is expected to give us four days of rain and winds up to 50 mph. Good thing the boat is still put away. (Trying to stay cheerful) The library is open late tonight, and the gas fireplace is going. Dave is sitting in a comfortable chair in front of the fireplace looking quite contented.

We worked on the masts. I expect to spend about another hour washing them down with soap. Both masts have minor oxidation in spots all over them from a
combination of sea salt and lime from the boat yard. Before it was a boatyard, this was a place where lime was brought to heat in a kiln. The coal for the fires to heat it came in on barges that docked in what is now the launch slip. (I have got to get pictures. So much easier to explain.)