Well not much new with me lately, just sitting around waiting for something to happen.
Hank as had the flu for the last 6 weeks, and now Caroline has got it. That is why I have been sitting around.
Hank has stopped over briefly, to make sure everything is alright with me; still floating and warms up my motor.
But today was different... Hank came over (looking a lot better), and started to take off my spare anchor, chain, my old lines, scuba suit, fishing gear, all my electric power tools, plus a lot of other stuff I really have no use for. I would estimate at least 1,000 lbs!
My neighbor sailboat "MoJo", asked me if I am getting a new owner, as all the "stuff" was being uploaded. I smiled and said hell no... just getting ready to the the Southern Straits Race!!! Yup, Hank is going to take me this year. If you can recall, we tried this race three years ago... with winds topping at 70 kts. We made it as far as Passage Island, then decided to withdraw from the race... too much for us. Needless to say the race was cancelled.
We are now getting ready for this race. We will be doing the short race, only 55 nt miles; See website....
Website to Southern Straits Race
Things to do...
Haul out and repaint my bottom
Add battery night lights - bow lights and man-over-board pole.
Continue to lighten my load
Practice Safety drills and crew (Jason Bowen and hopefully Alan)
plus a few other things, I'm sure.
Well that is it for now, so keep posted!
Tarka... out!
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