Maintenance Begins! ! ! !

SHIP'S LOG:

     Since I had to go up to the Portland area, I took the time to swing by Yankee and take a look at ABISHAG. She looks rather forlorn in the snow. Hike through the snow and got aboard. The cockpit was full of snow so I took some time to clean the cockpit scuppers as best I could, which was only fair. Enough snow had melted so that I was able to find the screw that backed out of the base of one of the support legs of the Bimini frame.  Took less than a minute to put it back in place and so finish the first maintenance project of the season. The rip in the Bimini cover is no worse than it was which is a good thing and I should be able to fix it with "rescue tape." This stuff is marvelous. Applied to, in this case, the vinyl cover it will literally become "one with the vinyl" and the will seal the breach.

     The inside of the boat is a freezer, so much colder than the temperature outside. It is a good thing in the summer buck it is rather nasty during the winter, hence the reticence to trying to attempt maintenance before the weather turns. I am hoping that it will not be too long before it happens. Yet as all sailors know, you deal with what you get. The weather in Florida though ain't much better though it will break a lot more quickly there than here.!