Here's wishing all sailors(but especially Cherubini owners 
) a safe, happy, and healthy 2003. For us snowbound northerners this can be a tough part of the season. I shoveled snow off the cover on Monday. Got inside to find a couple of buckets of water in the bilge(keel-stepped). Bailed her out and added another gallon of anti-freeze. Temp got up to 50 but raining too much to work. Wanted to run an extension cord to recharge the batteries but too much snow to drag the cord through. Did manage to create a pattern for making a larger bow roller. Tested the fit of my new "fence rail" instrument pod on the helm. On the other hand there are projects that I can do at home, like the bow roller. And I have the hatchboards in the basement. Two coats of varnish, only four to go. There will be some weekends in January and February where I will be able to charge the batteries. Then start installing the Link 2000 and new starter battery. The starter and alternator are at the shop for commutator cleaning and new brushes. Can reinstall those before March. Meanwhile I have been building fires and reading. Finished both of Linda Greenlaw's books(The Lobster Chronicles and The Hungry Ocean). You will remember her from "The Perfect Storm". Only a couple of weeks until the big Cleveland boat show. Might work for my marina there, a Hunter, Hanse, and Tartan dealer. So all is not lost on the North Coast. We'll be ready to splash in about fourteen weeks. Hope you are.
) a safe, happy, and healthy 2003. For us snowbound northerners this can be a tough part of the season. I shoveled snow off the cover on Monday. Got inside to find a couple of buckets of water in the bilge(keel-stepped). Bailed her out and added another gallon of anti-freeze. Temp got up to 50 but raining too much to work. Wanted to run an extension cord to recharge the batteries but too much snow to drag the cord through. Did manage to create a pattern for making a larger bow roller. Tested the fit of my new "fence rail" instrument pod on the helm. On the other hand there are projects that I can do at home, like the bow roller. And I have the hatchboards in the basement. Two coats of varnish, only four to go. There will be some weekends in January and February where I will be able to charge the batteries. Then start installing the Link 2000 and new starter battery. The starter and alternator are at the shop for commutator cleaning and new brushes. Can reinstall those before March. Meanwhile I have been building fires and reading. Finished both of Linda Greenlaw's books(The Lobster Chronicles and The Hungry Ocean). You will remember her from "The Perfect Storm". Only a couple of weeks until the big Cleveland boat show. Might work for my marina there, a Hunter, Hanse, and Tartan dealer. So all is not lost on the North Coast. We'll be ready to splash in about fourteen weeks. Hope you are.