Well, Ths Has Been Fun!

     Since Thanksgiving, I have been suffering from the "plague." Someone(s) at Thanksgiving Dinner shared it with everyone and it really hung on with me. It put me to bed twice over 10 days, first for 7 days and then for 3.  It is almost all gone now though the cough is struggling to take up a permanent residency.

     As a result, all of my best intentions to get  ABISHAG ready for the winter have pretty much been delayed. I actually got to the yard yesterday and packed and removed all my tools and all the electronics from the boat. I had hoped to wrap the boat as well, but unfortunately the winds were blowing at a steady 20 or so which would have made wrestling with the tarps an exercise in futility, especially doing it by myself. I was limited to putting up the rope frame. This is a web of clotheslines from the rails to the masts. These would offer some support to the tarps, allowing the snow and rain and sleet and other forms of precipitation to run off. It keeps the water in its various forms from collecting on the deck and other spots and then freezing and doing damage. It also keeps the water out of the boat where it would freeze and do damage inside. I also filled the bilge and the holding tank with antifreeze for no matter what I do water will get in somehow somewhere.

        Now granted it was blowing 20+ mph and ABISHAG was swaying a bit in the gusts, but I found that moving around the deck a little perilous. It happens every year when the boat is on the hard and I am moving about working on it. Strangely, I never have this problem when she is afloat. I guess sea-legs don't translate well to being aboard on the hard.