Essential Spring Boat Commissioning Checklist for Safe Sailing
Bilge pump running. Not great. Not terrible. Will investigate.
Bilge pump running. Not great. Not terrible. Will investigate.
Dolphins alongside for ten minutes this morning. Good omen.
New chart plotter arrived. Installation tomorrow if weather holds.
Wind died completely. Drifted for an hour. Peaceful actually.
Propeller needed cleaning. Easy fix once I found the snorkel.
Seagull stole my sandwich. Bold move.
Sunset from the dock. Not bad for a Tuesday.
Tide was wrong. Went home early.
Barnacles on the hull again. Six weeks since last scrape. Boat feels sluggish. Diving under tomorrow if the water’s clear enough. Cold work but necessary.
Teaching my nephew to tie knots this weekend. Started with a bowline. You know, the rabbit comes out of the hole, around the tree. He...