But the fire is so delightful.
I returned to the boat yesterday after a wonderful week in DC. Quite an experience to get off the Metro and meet my son who I last saw as a gawky adolescent in Maine just four months ago and to be greeted by a Congressional Staffer (well, Intern, but he looks and sounds ready for greater things). It made me feel like I had been away for five years.
I got back to the boat after a nightmare seven and a half hour drive that was only supposed to take three hours according to Google Maps. That part of DC - not so wonderful. I was just in time to bring the un-winterized systems back to life.
The thermometer I set out in the cockpit read 20 F. degrees when I looked out this morning and another on the cabin table read 64. That was encouraging for a boat that had been sitting stone cold all that time. The cockpit thermometer now reads 31 in the sun and it’s 73 on the cabin table so I feel like the Dickenson heater is standing by me well.
I walked down the dock this morning to a sight new to my cruising experience, an icicle hanging from the bilge pump discharge.
Buck420 put my tooth back together this morning and I’m ready to get underway except for the weather that looks like it will pin me down here until early next week. It will be interesting to see how winds predicted to be gale force will affect the heat situation. I may also get to experience another cruising first, snow on the deck. I’ve thought since I was young and foolish and dreaming about cruising someday that it would be cool to wake up to snowy decks. We’ll see how the dreams of youth match up to the reality of maturity.
I returned to the boat yesterday after a wonderful week in DC. Quite an experience to get off the Metro and meet my son who I last saw as a gawky adolescent in Maine just four months ago and to be greeted by a Congressional Staffer (well, Intern, but he looks and sounds ready for greater things). It made me feel like I had been away for five years.
I got back to the boat after a nightmare seven and a half hour drive that was only supposed to take three hours according to Google Maps. That part of DC - not so wonderful. I was just in time to bring the un-winterized systems back to life.
The thermometer I set out in the cockpit read 20 F. degrees when I looked out this morning and another on the cabin table read 64. That was encouraging for a boat that had been sitting stone cold all that time. The cockpit thermometer now reads 31 in the sun and it’s 73 on the cabin table so I feel like the Dickenson heater is standing by me well.
I walked down the dock this morning to a sight new to my cruising experience, an icicle hanging from the bilge pump discharge.
Buck420 put my tooth back together this morning and I’m ready to get underway except for the weather that looks like it will pin me down here until early next week. It will be interesting to see how winds predicted to be gale force will affect the heat situation. I may also get to experience another cruising first, snow on the deck. I’ve thought since I was young and foolish and dreaming about cruising someday that it would be cool to wake up to snowy decks. We’ll see how the dreams of youth match up to the reality of maturity.