Things are slowing down at a time; spring time, when they usually begin to speed up.
I noticed the parking lot of our local boatyard/builder which employs more than 50 full time workers, was empty. Sure enough, I found new today that they decided to close until end of April. However, the small outside crew launching docks, which also launches boats, is still working.
But they don't intend to do much launching. I know they won't be stepping any spars until the end of the month. And that date is all tenative. We don't know that much about this pandemic and certainly can't make an accurate prediction of when it will be time to get back to any sort of normal.
There's still hydraulic trailers that will launch, I suppose, and at least one small crane operator that will step masts. But I'm staying off the boat for now. Maybe be doing something on it at the end of the month.
We're getting out everyday walking with no danger from others. The sea is all around us here. Walking in a little graveyard in town we looked for the descendants that built our old house sometime around 1850.
Found a couple of headstones and this one - perhaps a brother of the original Talbot owner - made me feel lucky to be alive.