Would You Believe ? ? ? ?

      Well, I am recovering, I think. On Friday last, after the early shift running the launch at TYC, I decided to push fate and go paint the bottom of ABISHAG. ( figure that if I got her ready, the engine would finally be fixed and all would be right with the world. It was 87 degrees hot and it took 90 minutes to get the job done. I consumed 1.5 gallons of water during the 90 minutes but I must have sweat it all out because afterward I couldn't even pee! I drank another gallon at home sitting in the coolness provided by my fan but just sat and couldn't move. Sounds worse than it actually was but my get up and go definitely got u[p and went. I actually went to bed about 8pm and getting out of bed the next day was a chore.

     Of course, on Saturday morning, I had the early shift on the launch and it was a bust shift as we had a major race on Saturday. Drank lots of water and juice all through the shift and when I got off at 3pm, headed home for more fluid and sleep. 

     I was still feeling rather blah on Sunday so it was a total veg - day. More fluids and more sleeping and by Monday I was feeling pretty good, good enough to got to that sail loft.

     On Monday, since it was the 1st of July, I went and had a chat with Eric. He said that the boat would be in the water on Tuesday or Wednesday. The engine wasn't fixed, but if I stayed on the hard  any longer, I would started to get charged of "Summer Storage."  So ABISHAG will be towed back to TYC and hopefully be fixed there.

AH, the joy of boat ownership.