Today was my mother’s birthday. If she were still alive, it would have been
her 100th birthday. She’s
been gone 25 years. I guess you miss
your parents forever.
We are anchored about 1 mile from the dingy dock with a short walk to a small
grocery store. We decided to sail our
Portland Pudgy “Skadoosh”. It was a full
day adventure since we were against the tide both ways. There is no motor. It took us about 2 hours to get there. Then we went out for lunch and picked up a
few groceries. Then it took about 2
hours to get back to the boat. This is
also our life boat. So we figure this is
good practice to see if we can stand to be in it for hours (probably days in
reality).
While we had Skadoosh off of the deck, we tried out our new
scoop for the v berth hatch. It is
custom made with each order. There are
snaps on the deck that it fastens to, besides tying it done. Dave will have to move a couple of the snaps
for the new one. It seems a little
bigger. We love using this to bring a
breeze down on us while we are sleeping.
And if it rains, we can adjust it to keep the rain our, but the air
flowing in. I think we got 4 years out
of the old one.
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| photo shows the green scoop with Skadoosh raised at anchor |
Watching the jet skis roar past us today, Dave said he just
doesn’t get the fascination with them. I
said it’s all about going fast. Then
Dave came up with a new name for them “go-fastards”.
We decided to take the dinghy today to refill 4 diesel jerry
cans. This is a busy vacation area AND
it was a Saturday. So we braced
ourselves for heavy traffic on the water.
And we rewarded ourselves with ice cream (it doesn’t keep in our
freezer).
I took the dinghy back to the dinghy dock to go to Church in
Wrightsville Beach. I found St Therese’s
within walking distance. And that was my
mother’s name, so it felt special so close to her birthday.
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| Wrightsville Beach |
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| sunset from our boat in the channel |
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