Winter Be Coming!

SHIP'S LOG:

     According to the "Never-Wrong" forecasters at NOAA, we should be getting snow Sunday night. Considering the blizzard that haws been hitting the upper mid-west, it is a bit of a no brainer. Hopefully, NOAA will be as accurate as the usually are as I am not ready for winter.

     Working in the sail loft the past week has been like working in a refrigerator. There is "radiant" heating, but it is more for the machines and the cloth than for the workers. Ya gota keep the computers and sewing machines at the proper temp or the cease to function, or at least cease to function well. Then again, I have been working in the part of the loft that the heat misses. It is so chilly that the tape used to stick sail patches and panels together doesn't stick really well. It tends to stop sticking a couple of days after you lay it down. I have to go back and go over each piece of tape and pr4ess it down, getting it to stick again.

     I haven't chastised my fingers together yet simply because I haven't been sewing. I did however slice finger tips nicely. I forgot that sail cloth is so stiff that it can slice you like a knife. It is something like a "paper cut" but on steroids.

     I have been working about two weeks and I am still "paying off" the furler, something like an indentured servant. I have about $800 to go. I "make" $10/hour and probably will average about 5 hours a day, tops. Hopefully, I will have it all paid off by the beginning of the new year and can actually start making some money. I will need it to pay the yard-bill and TYC membership dues and for all of the little items I will need to get ABISHAG ready for launching in the spring. Ah, the fun of boat ownership!