| Falcon's Log 2 |
| October 7, 2008 - Seafood Shack Marina - Cortez, Florida I started early today and got the rest of the hard ratlines made and tarred. Finished just in time for the skies to open and pour on us. There are nine steps in this last batch and the very last steps will take a little time before I'm comfortable with just how I should go about making them. I want to be able to reach the very tops of the masts easily, but the shrouds get so close that my feet won't fit between them as they get near the top. I'll think of something. It's more important to get on with the water system and cabin sole and other things. Below is a picture of Walt, in the red shirt, and RJ, who owns the mariner. RJ is a Native American and Walt wears a Cowboy hat, but all resemblances to Tonto and the Lone Ranger end there. I don't think either of them can ride a horse. There was a space that needed filling, according to my particular mental disorder, so I just happened to have another picture of Lace Rose Alenius standing in the same spot as Walt and RJ. I gotta think she looks best of the three. |
| October 8, 2008 - Seafood Shack Marina - Cortez, Florida I actually started early this morning but have only set up the sun shade, worked on the website, and corrected some minor inconveniences caused by the rain last night. It rained so hard that ducks, gators, and even fish drowned. Everything but these damned skeeters. Did laundry and watched the Ambulance Techs haul Old Chuck out of the laundry room and off to the hospital. He's been going in and out of hospitals lately and doesn't seem to care, somehow. When he's here, he stays below deck on his old Chris Craft and drinks and watches TV. He needs to get out and walk around a little and get healthy, but he gave up his (nasty) little dog because he says he can't take care of it (read as 'take it for a 50 foot walk to the doggy pooping ground next to his boat') any more. If I were just a bit more callous, I'd start a pool on when we notice 'the' odor coming from his boat and call the Coroner. Another good reason to drop these infernal lines and get moving. I installed the galley sink faucet and plumbed it in. I'm thinking of throwing a coat of white single part poly paint on the head bulkheads and installing the newly constructed shower manifold. Wait, wait. Damn Dominoes. First, I should change the waste overboard thru-hull valve - only a tad risky doing it in the water because IT IS one of the 1 1/2 inch valves and that DOES leave a pretty big hole in the boat for a second or two - and then install the head step where the head will be mounted, and THEN paint the walls white. Okay, I'll do that. Thanks for the 'heads up'. I really need to have the head installed before I hang the big plumbing assembly because, what If I accidentally eat a whole case of five alarm chili peppers, and the next day while expelling same on the throne I suddenly thrash around a bit and smack my head on the mixer valves, lacerating my skull? How will I explain it if someone asks, "Yo, dude! How'd you get the stitches on your noggin? You got a little 'FrankenBen' thing going on there." Ha ha ha. That ain't funny, man. |
| October 9, 2008 - Seafood Shack Marina - Cortez, Florida HUGE problem with lame presidential debates and other flat TV is that I go to bed early and end up getting up at 4 AM, like I did this morning. Once the sun came up I started outside and managed to finish the ratlines. Well, there is one more little thing left - I still have to melt off the loose ends of the lashings securing them to the rigging - but, other than that, they are done. They make it easy to get up the rig and I can get to the top of either mast in under 30 seconds. I also took apart the Sailrite sewing machine and fixed the case. It got a little wet and swelled a bit and I had to wait for it to get dry enough to shrink back down so I could clean it up and seal it. I also sprayed the big brass shower plumbing assembly with clear automotive topcoat to try to protect the shiny gold appearance for a while. And I got the big thru-hull valve loose in the head. I'll probably change that either tonight, or tomorrow. That was a load off my mind, wondering if the bronze thru-hull fitting would shatter when I put the wrench to the big valve. It didn't. |
| The rungs for the ratline ladders seem a bit wide-spaced, but I prefer that to having too many steps. Schooners are notoriously bad pointers anyway, but adding all that windage doesn't help any so the fewer the better. Still, they look good and work great. It adds something to the classic look of the boat as well. The closer I get to finishing 'Falcon', the more compliments I get. Of course, not that I'm jaded or anything, but what are they going to say? "Man! That's one butt-ugly boat!" There has been a stretch of time since I wrote the previous entries, and I have changed out the big valve. A LOT OF WATER tries to come in through such a big hole, but it wasn't bad and it's done. My socks got wet. |
| October 11, 2008 - Seafood Shack Marina - Cortez, Florida Yesterday was one of those bad days where I try unsuccessfully to treat a sinus headache. I truly hate Benadryl, but it seems to be the only thing that helps. Unfortunately, it also makes me dizzy, exhausted, and gives me what I can only describe as 'restless leg syndrome'. It's like poisoning myself to get partial relief from a headache. This is from 'Florida'. I'm pretty sure it's mold because I only get them when the wind blows from the middle of the state to the Gulf, and when the 'mold count' is high. I'm fairly confident they will stop when I leave the area. This morning feels pretty good. I'm all set up outside to get some sewing jobs done, so I hope things go well and I can get some stuff moving. At noon, Paul's job is done and installed on his boat. Joe's stuff next. Headache is back and it's killing me. I've GOT to get out of here. |
| I got the first of Joe's canvas work done. It was kind of a pain, but it's done and done well. One of the great benefits of this website is that absolutely nobody reads it, so I can pretty much say whatever I want. And I totally do not want to work on other peoples stuff any more. When I finish up Joe's stuff, then Randy's, that's the end, and I'm dead serious. As far as the logs, I'll continue to keep them because it keeps my hands working over a keyboard and I need to keep that skill up. When I'm able to completely apply myself to getting the publishing back on track, I expect to spend as much as 16 hours a day here, working. And loving it. I took a shot or four of the moon outside a few minutes ago just to see how well the camera would handle it. Seems good. |
| October 12, 2008 - Seafood Shack Marina - Cortez, Florida Got all Joe's old Bimini zippers off and cleaned the cloth up. Found that most of the thread is sun-rotted and had to re-sew many of the seams. Still and all, I've only got about 3 hours into it so far. Have to install some patches as well, then sew on all the new zippers - all 8 of them. After this, (I forgot) I still have to replace the zipper in his sail cover. That's probably the easiest one of the bunch. "Maya" came back from a week-long charter last night and I helped her dock. I got a few pics and asked Tony when I'd be able to get below and take some shots for the website. He basically said 'anytime', but if I wanted to see it all cleaned up (it's a little messy after a long charter) and with fresh bedding and the beds all made, give it a few days. Here are a few pics of 'Maya' and the sunset last night. |
| After what has been a long, long day, involving three trips to Home Depot and two to Lowes - and you can't tell anyone at either store that you're 'seeing' someone at the 'other store', or the fur is gonna fly - I finally changed the chuck on my DeWalt 3/8" drill and converted it to a weak 1/2" drill. It was touch and go and required a torch and more than $30. If the drill dies, I'm keeping the damn chuck. I also succeeded in liberating over $200 from my pocket for all these plumbing parts. This better make me mucho happy or I'll grumble every time I use the head and see this assembly on the bulkhead behind it. It's fairly simple really. The top assembly with the 'J' rig on it comes from the freshwater pump system and feeds both the galley sink cold water and the feed to the big assembly. It comes in at the gray fitting covered by the lower yellow handle, where it goes to the first riser that exits through the bulkhead to feed the water heater, and also heads right to the drop valve that feeds the head with fresh water - salt water stinks - and the first red-handled gate valve, which is the cold mixer for the shower, the center riser. The shower has a ball valve to turn it on and off so I can mix the temperature, then just turn the water on and off between soaping to save water. Moving right along the main line is the second red-handled gate valve, which is the hot mixer for the shower, and then the last riser, which is the hot water out of the water heater, and on the bottom, the hot water feed to the galley sink. This leads back under the floor to the last assembly, lying between the other two, which is just a connector for the Quest piping, an on/off valve for the sink, and the flexible connector hose for the hot water feed to the faucet. All in all, it's a good system, built with expensive 3/4" fittings instead of the cheaper and smaller 1/2" ones, but it is expected to be strong and problem free for many years to come. |
| RJ showed up today long enough today to remove the masking tape. I suppose the boat looks a little less like a Filipino Taxi than it did with the bright blue tape, but I always liked those old painted up WW2 Jeeps. |
| October 6, 2008 - Seafood Shack Marina - Cortez, Florida (Cont.) |
| October 13, 2008 - Seafood Shack Marina - Cortez, Florida The wind is pretty gusty today, but I have a long day ahead of me, so I started by putting up the sunshade over my dock work area. It's whipping and snapping just fine and should serve to keep me occupied watching it for signs of flying off across the Intracoastal Waterway sometime during the day. Also, because there's nothing better than climbing the rigging in howling wind, I took up Eddie's ancient electric soldering gun that he loaned me and went up both ratline ladders, melting off and smoothing the 84 loose ends of the lashings securing the ratlines. It really wasn't bad, and no mosquitoes bothered me up there (they fear heights). Geoff came around and invited me to go aboard 'Maya' and get some shots. The first thing he did was to show me all over the deck and go through all the rigging. There are a handful of powered multi-speed winches on board, as well as hydraulic jib furling (each unit being the approximate value of a well appointed Porsche) hydraulic, jet thrust bow and stern thrusters, and so much gear and electronics that I'd be hard pressed to make a comprehensive list here. Instead, I'll post a few of the pictures, and later on, when the boat is truly all picked up and spotless, I'll get some more shots and maybe consolidate a single page to 'Maya' along with charter information. |
| The jib furlers are fabulous and if I owned one I would keep it polished and lying front and center on my desk - because I couldn't presently afford the rest of the boat it would need to be attached to. The next picture is a small segment of the line handling gear on Maya's deck. Geoff simplified it a bit by removing a few non-essential lines and replacing them with less extensive methods of accomplishing the same tasks. You can see the three empty clutches in the center that once held triple luff reef lines, now replaced with proper sail mounted 'D' rings and gooseneck hooks. |
| The nav station is well situated in the main saloon and allows ready access to everything while remaining in contact with the conversation in the galley and main saloon. The large switch panel overhead appears to be all neat and in order, though I might think over 200 individual circuits aboard a 74 foot sailboat to be a bit much. I could be wrong. There is a LOT of equipment on this boat. |
| One might only need a pair of five year olds running full speed through this boat to really understand how big it is inside. There is a full settee beneath the etched, back-lit mirror in the main saloon, and a giant freezer/reefer housed in the large counter area separating the galley from the settee. |
| The mirror is actually singed by the artist - Sandra. The owners cabin and head are forward, and we'll wait for the cleaning lady to straighten them up before post photos. Try as I might, 20 to 25 knot winds were too much to deal with while trying to sew. Later on, it rained pretty good. Not too much and not steadily, but enough to put a cap on the day. I worked on Randy's stuff a little while watching a movie on board. |
| October 14, 2008 - Seafood Shack Marina - Cortez, Florida Eddie from Tarquin showed up early today to get some work done in his engine room. A few days ago he changed the engine oil for the first time, much to the delight of myself and others on the dock, and had an oil pressure pumping line failure which resulted in hot, black oil spraying all over Eddie, the engine, the engine room, and yes, the engine room ceiling, resulting in a beautiful black rain the completely spotted Eddie. Well, it isn't every day you get to see someone stumble out of their boat looking like a gray-haired soccer ball wearing leopard spots. If only I'd thought to get my camera. Anyway, he showed up early and got to work with paper towels and 409 cleaning up what he could of the cramped little engine room. He took several breaks to come and sit with me and talk about all things remote and meaningless with a brief 30 second interval dedicated to him explaining what he was doing and me showing the repairs to Joe's Bimini that I was involved with. I struggled with the high winds for as long as I could stand the rumblings of my own complaints banging through my head, then chucked it in and checked the schedule once more to see when I was to pick up Donny and Barbara at the airport. Wednesday at 5:22 PM. Good. Time marches on and I've got to GET THE HELL OUT OF HERE! Oh. Sorry. That just slipped out. |
| October 15, 2008 - Seafood Shack Marina - Cortez, Florida Didn't get much of anything done today except to pick up Don and Barb at the airport. The wind howled all day again, so I never even tried to get any sewing done. We stopped into Crisper's for a tasty supper and called it a night. There was a presidential debate on TV, so that means there was nothing on top watch. I watched a movie and went to bed early. |
| A day or two ago I took a shot of my awesome, finished - with no more dangling tails hanging down - ladders silhouetted against a cloudy sunset sky in the evening. The disc on the foremast LOOKS like my Shakespeare TV antenna, but I'm pretty sure it's a flying saucer. Yeah, that's the ticket. A flying saucer. The streaky sunset last night looked cool. |
| October 16, 2008 - Seafood Shack Marina - Cortez, Florida On days like this, I hate Florida with a passion that approaches something pathological. The wind slowed down to 5 to 10 with plenty of calm spots. The temperature went well into the 90's, and the plague of no-see-ums is legendary. Unbelievable swarms of biting, blood sucking pains in the ass. It is a bucket of suck. I still got eight zippers sewed onto Joe's Bimini, and just have two of them to finish. Then I'll do the one on his sail cover and install everything on the boat. Randy stopped by today about his cushions - he's totally not in a hurry, but, When will they be done? And how about early next week? Yeah, yeah, I get it, man. No one wants these things done more than me. Donny came over today to visit for a while and make arrangements for me to go to the Glades Boatyard with him and Barb on November 3rd, to help him install the sail drive and then drive his car back. He and Barb will stay there and have the boat launched and sail it back up here. That'll take about a week. I'll be back to the Seafood Shack in three hours. |
| Almost every evening I get to the dock with my camera to see if something special might happen during the sunset. Many times, the dolphins play very near the end of the long dock where Falcon is moored. Tonights special event was my losing over two pints of blood to biting gnats. |
| October 18, 2008 - Seafood Shack Marina - Cortez, Florida It's Saturday. I've been up since 5 AM. It what happens when you go to bed at 10 PM. Sometimes I wake up at 3 AM or 4. I sort of enjoy the quiet, peaceful hours where people aren't stopping by and interrupting me. It gives me some unbroken solitude in which to address long computer sessions. Working with the new Adobe software can be a bit of an exercise in frustration, even with the latest DVD Tutorials, because my version of the software is not the 'latest and greatest' release and lacks some of the best and most powerful editing tools. I'm caught between buying new software and letting the Adobe stuff remain only as a receptacle for projects already edited with other, less idiosyncratic and more user friendly programs. Like the Corel Suite and Microsoft Word - then paste them into Adobe InDesign for submission to the printer. I will still use Adobe Photoshop and Illustrator, but only for minor adjustments and as 'gateway' applications to prepare for final submission. Most of the printing industry works in Adobe as a universal doorway to install projects into the new printing machinery now being used throughout the world. As much as I'd LIKE to have the work done here, price is as much a factor as quality. |
| October 17, 2008 - Seafood Shack Marina - Cortez, Florida Finished Joe's Bimini, Pedestal Cover and Sail Cover and installed them all on his boat. What a relief. Then I got busy on Randy's project. I finally finished getting all the old cushion covers apart so I can use the old Vinyl for patterns in cutting the new stuff. Discovered that all my hand sewing needles and special machine needles got wet and are now rusted and ruined. It's about $50 worth of gear and it irks me some. Oh, well. Once I get more of the boat done, everything will be safely stowed aboard and will be less susceptible to sudden rain squalls while I'm out doing laundry, or fighting crime in my stretchy day-glo suit and diver's mask. |
| I took a couple of shots this morning from the end of the dock. Mornings here are often calm and tranquil and I think we sometimes take it for granted. Got a lot done on Randy's project today, but I still have to finish cutting out the last few pieces of material. It was a little bit of a pain in the sun during the hottest part of the day. I should remember I've said things like that later on when I'm back up north in the bitter long cold and wishing for just a bit of sunshine to warm my creaky old bones. I wonder if I'll ever have creaky old bones? Sometimes I feel like I might have them already. |
| October 19, 2008 - Seafood Shack Marina - Cortez, Florida Yesterday, I ordered the snaps for Randy's job, as well as several packs of new needles for the sewing machine. Then, for good measure, I checked in at Amazon for a new CD version of a rare old record that I had many wives ago. I can't tell you what it is. Okay, I will. No, I won't, it's too silly. Okay, now I have to. Damn! How did this happen? Okay, okay. The Stone Poneys with Linda Ronstadt, Evergreen Vol. 2. Just released on CD after something like 40 years. I also ordered Alison Krauss' new CD - A Hundred Miles Or More: A Collection - in order to take advantage of the free shipping. I was going to get it anyway, but I always save a few things I want to tip the order into the free shipping size and save a few bucks. I did get back out on the dock yesterday and finish the cutting of the material. Today should be a day of straight-forward sewing and complaining about the wind. The wind isn't going to be much of an issue today, even though it's forecast to be a pain in the ass, because most of the work is fairly small and heavy. One of my favorite things is music. I have two identical files on the computer - with the exception that one is a list of songs by 'Artist', and the other is the same list by 'Song'. They each have over 4,700 tunes and take up 14.3 Gigs of space. I have something like 1,120 Gigs of disc space, so it's not a problem. I also build my own computers and the one I have now causes a warpage in the time/space continuum when I boot it up. Anyway, the point is, I have dozens of cherry-picked play lists and really enjoy clicking one to action and cranking up the volume while either inside or outside on the dock. Unbelievable as it may sound, there is almost no rap, except of course, the VERY FIRST rap song, 'Rapture' by Blondie and sung by that blue-eyed, blond girl, Debbie Harry. Go figure. So there I was, wondering what the Rays would do in the big Pennant race game tonight, when BAM! - the thing comes down the river. I took pictures so you could guess what it was like the rest of us. It's something, for sure. It's this big 'thing'. |
| There's no doubt, it's some kind of big old 'thing' being pushed by a tug. It's a brand new 'thing', and it's headed to Sarasota, where they are known for having lots of big 'things' hanging around. I think it's going to end up being a waterfront restaurant where patrons will get to eat in a fishbowl and fry under the south Florida sun. Yeah. That's the thing. And it's pretty. Like a baboons butt. |
| October 20, 2008 - Seafood Shack Marina - Cortez, Florida The Rays won last night and I didn't get a whole lot of work done yesterday. I dug all my wire out of the storage dock box and dumped it into Falcon's cockpit, so I can go through it and see what I'll be using and what I'll either toss out or leave for others to pick through. |
| Since most of the equipment is mounted inside the boat, as well as the cable trays for the wiring, I can actually start running the hundreds of feet of wiring from point to point, labeling it as I go, then connect it later - in a chapter to be detailed here. The two piles of wire are only part of it. There are two more piles of BIG cable. One is the yellow multi-conductor stuff peeking out from under the sail bag farther up the dock, and another is the 150 feet of heavy welding cable in the red dockbox. The welding cable Is used for heavy amperage applications if which only one remains, and that is the feed to the 2500 watt inverter to provide 115 AC from 12 volt battery power while at anchor. I'll also run a huge ground cable forward to take the load of all the bow equipment - except the windlass, which has dedicated cabling - like the macerator, the fresh water pump, and all the lights and shower sump. Running a single huge common means I only have to run power distribution leads from the circuit breakers to the devices. |
| I have a killer headache today and don't know how much I'll be able to get done. I've already taken aspirin and hope I won't have to take half of one of those Benadryl moron-makers that has a tendency to stupefy me into senselessness. |
| October 21, 2008 - Seafood Shack Marina - Cortez, Florida I got some good work done on Randy's cushions today and fended off two more jobs from others. RJ wanted me involved with him and his boat again because Walt is doing Ironwork on the Anna Maria Island Bridge right now, and Kim wanted me to sew new zippers into her Dodger and Bimini now that she's done with this huge paint job on a great sweat-hog of a powerboat. See pictures. Great job. Very shiny. I turned her down as well. Kim is good people - was once married to Greg Allman and they had a child together, who unfortunately died at the age of 18 (or so) - and I would definitely have done the job for her, if I wasn't so determined to GET THE HELL OUT OF HERE! |
| October 21, 2008 - Seafood Shack Marina - Cortez, Florida Woke up at 3 AM again this morning. I watched the news for a while, and once suitably depressed, (not really - I don't feed into things that are beyond my control, and only own my share of things that aren't) I got up and started doing some computer work. This cushion work for Randy is a great big fat pain in the ass and I cannot stress enthusiastically enough how pleased I will be to be done with it. I enjoy doing my own work, where I'm free to 'adjust' things as I see fit to improve or simplify the job, but when the job is to exactly duplicate an item already in existence, the job becomes more tedium and drudgery than fun. I am SO over it, you know, the 'challenge' aspect of new jobs. |
| October 24, 2008 - Seafood Shack Marina - Cortez, Florida One cushion - the worst of the three - is done and just needs to be installed. I'm putting all new snaps on everything. I finished it on Wednesday, then went down to Pine Island with Donny yesterday to pick up his outdrive. The forecast was for rain, though we didn't have any until later. It's Friday morning right now and raining steadily, sometimes very hard. It's expected to keep up all day and into the night. I'll do some stuff inside today. |
| October 26, 2008 - Seafood Shack Marina - Cortez, Florida I haven't gotten too much done for the past few days - wind, rain, nautical Flea Market, blah, blah, blah - but I did manage to cob together this sunset series of photos into a much better picture than Kevin Costner's "Waterworld". I also made up more wire labels and did a bit of essential shopping at the 'Dollar Store', which, from now on I will call the 'Fistful Of Dollars' store. The weather people are declaring Sunday a Work Day for me, as there will be no rain and little wind. I'm up for that. I can't wait to get this last job finished. I am so sick of living in an unfinished boat. |
| October 27, 2008 - Seafood Shack Marina - Cortez, Florida It turns out the owner of the big blue sweat hog that Mark and Kim painted is refusing to pay for the job because he says, "If you look just right in the right light you can just barely see an area on the boat that once had an old injury." Personally, I'd'a told this mook that if he doesn't cough up the cake, he'll collect a bunch of injuries anyone could see in the dark. As it is, Mark and Kim are levying a lien on the boat, and what the mook doesn't realize is that Andy, the owner of the yard, NEVER launches a boat that has an outstanding debt owed to one of his vendors. Not only that, from the day the job is finished, he starts charging lay days at the premium rate, so the guys going to pay or he's going to lose the boat. The world is FULL of scumbags. They should all smell like vomit so you can sense them coming. Got more done on the cushions yesterday, though it was pretty cold and windy. Will carry on today as best I can, and continue with some of my own work as well. Today is laundry day. Oh, yeah. Yay. Laundry is done, as well as more work on the cushions. Presently nursing a headache and considering eating lunch and lying down for a bit - watch a little of the 'Return Of The King'. Yeah, that's the ticket. Beans for lunch. Got even more done on the cushions. Headache not so bad any more. Supposed to be cold and windy tomorrow. We'll see what I can do on the cushions - the LAST job I will do for a customer. Actually, I wouldn't do this if it was for a customer in the real sense of the word. I really only do stuff for friends in exchange for parts or materials for Falcon, and I'm nearing the end of that run. From now on, anything I need I will save for and buy. I really need to be off the dock and out cruising so I can concentrate on finishing up Falcon and working on the publishing. What if my writing sucks? Never mind, never mind. I don't have time to think about that. I need to make a run to the store right now and grab a sandwich or something. |
| October 28, 2008 - Seafood Shack Marina - Cortez, Florida It's about 50 degrees outside, which is fairly nippley for those of us who's blood is so thin we could bleed to death from a paper cut. I've to TV on, the computer with both monitors, and both mini-watt florescent bulbs to warm the place up, and it's almost up to 70 in here, so I'm liking it. Once I get the insulation installed inside here, it should be easy to keep it either warm or cool inside the boat. I also have an oil stove I can install to heat the place up VERY well when I need it. I did well on the cushions yesterday and will bring everything inside a bit later on to get the final stages set up as far as the sewing goes. Once they are ready, I'm apt to go out into the cold and wind - it's REALLY windy here just now, like 25 to 30 knot gusty northern cold stuff - and do the final sewing, just to get it over with. After that, all that will be left is to install them on Randy's boat Then I'll be happy and jump up and down like Gollum did after biting off Frodo's finger and getting the ring near the end of Return of the King. Except that I'll have a little more hair and will be wearing clothes, you know, and other stuff that's better than Gollum. |
| This is the computer area aboard Falcon, as it is now. I just took the picture. As you can see, the cabinsides are not yet covered or finished in any way except structurally. There has been NO cosmetic work done inside Falcon, and none will be done until I get ALL structural installations completed. The computer works good, though most of it will be built in below the counter it is sitting on, and the two monitors will be permanently mounted to a secure panel later on. As for now, I have to do what I can as I can, and do not have the luxury of slapping together a lot of crap to make it look good, only to rip it out later. It's coming along and I'm not discouraged. The $3 plastic Walmart lawn chair is a nice touch, huh? Yeah. I put two layers of foam on the seat to raise it up a bit. All the cheesy old computer speakers will be gone once I get an automotive 4-channel amplifier and wire in the main cabin and cockpit speakers, with change-over switch |
| October 31, 2008 - Seafood Shack Marina - Cortez, Florida The cold is gone. The warmth is back. I've done the last of the sewing on the cushions and now all that remains is to clean them up and install them. Geoff has Randy's charter boat, Lil Toot, out on a job right now, so I'm waiting until later to see if I can get something done. Right now, I have 'THE' headache coming on. |