SHIP'S LOG:
One of the things that drives me crazy about winter is that it is inconsistent. I don't know for sure, maybe it is the infamous "global warming," but winter these days seems a whole lot less consistent that in years past. Perhaps I am just getting old and falling into the trap of the elderly, but winter weather seems worse in my long ago childhood.
It seems to me now that way back when, winter arrived shortly after Thanksgiving and stayed until late March. I seem to recall that sometime before Christmas, the temperature would plummet and we would get a "significant" snow storm and the cold temps and the snow cover would last until "spring" arrived. Throughout the winter, more snow would fall and there would be the January "thaw," but the snow and the cold temperatures would never really go away. If it rained at all, it merely coated every surface with ice and the snow still remained.
It is not the case anymore. This past week we had temperatures in the 20's and a little dusting of snow and by Wednesday it will be in the 50's with a lot of rain and wind. Next weekend it will get cold and snowy again followed by a week of moderate temperatures. When it is cold, it is too cold to work on the as fingers and brains don't function well in the cold, nor do the potions one needs to clean the boat and do up keep. When the weather moderates, it doesn't moderate enough. It moderates enough to get above freezing and so turn the ground around the boat into a sucking mud bog. It moderates enough to get above freezing and allow ice and snow to melt and fill scuppers and drains, and find cracks and seams in which the water will freeze, making crack worse and causing flooding if at all possible. But it will not moderate enough to use caulks and/or paints and/or varnish and/or glue and/or adhesives and/or cleaners and/or degreasers and/or any such and that is the frustrating part. One simply can not get anything done without hauling those things that are haul-able to some place else where they can be worked on. Sadly, t'ain't a lot that falls into that category.
And so I wait, secure in the knowledge that spring is coming . . . someday!
Tuesday, January 29, 2013
Monday, January 28, 2013
The LIST
SHIP'S LOG:
The "Projects List" is only 10 pages long! Truth be told it is shorter than i expected though the longer I let it sit while waiting until the weather makes work possible, the longer it gets. I can be doing a whole lot of things not associated with boating or boat maintenance and suddenly, out of the blue, an idea for another project - a vitally important one - pops into my head and it goes on the list. This can be the frustrating part of boating in New England, even southern New England, the fact that there are so many things to be done which can't be done due to the weather.
I have been looking at pictures of CN 39s online and some of them really have been restored to fantastic shape, at least in the interior. Some of the pictures make it hard to believe that I am looking at the same boat as ABISHAG. Of course, with lots of money, one can do anything, ( Come on Publisher's Clearing House!) still there are a lot of things that can be done with the stuff already in my possession. and again, it really is the setting of priorities. ABISHAG could go into the water right now and be just fine, but as old friend, Ed Davis was want to say, "Preventive maintenance!" i would really like to tackle the wiring in ABISHAG. Most of the remaining wiring, that left over and in place from the great "ripping out" of last year, is as old as the boat and in in need of replacement, or at least maintenance. Neither of the florescent light fixtures in the main salon function. I don't know whether it is the bulbs that are gone or whether the wiring is so corroded that it is broken or producing too much resistance for it to function. I spent a rain day last spring tagging the wires that I could easily get too, but there are still "miles" that are un-tagged and unidentified. Electricity is still all voodoo to me but this work must be done. The electric anchor light and white steaming light on the main mast do not function, though again whether it is bulbs or wiring I can't say. The white steaming light and cockpit light on the mizzen are also inoperative and remain so for the same reasons. Of the engine gauges, the tach, the engine hour meter and oil pressure work but none of the other four. Last spring I disassembled the engine panel and removed and cleaning and corrosion blocked all of the them, but they continue not to work. It could be the gauges, it could be the sender, I simply don't know. But as with the nav lights it must be a priority.
Another priority is cleaning the engine room/compartment. There is 35 years worth of soot and oil residue and diesel film all over the place and it needs to be made to disappear. I cleaned the engine bed last year, something that really needed to be done. I am still trying to figure out where all of the dirt and oil scum comes from. How does "dirt" get on a boat that in on the water all the time? I have tried cleaning the bilge several times and it seems as though I am just going through layers and this time I want to get all the "gunk" out. When you don't, you get what Fred likes to refer to as "bilge breath," a rather unpleasant fragrance where permeates the atmosphere of the boat and even gets into any clothing stored on the boat, as well as the fabric on the cushions. So it is that cleaning the various surfaces just does work. It is a matter of dealing with the disease and not just the symptoms. Fred claims to have the solution and it involves a 2,500psi sprayer. Should be a rather interesting project!
And all that is just a small part of the List. Eventually, I will have to prioritize the List for that will determine the funds to be spent and when you don't have any funds, this is a major concern.
The "Projects List" is only 10 pages long! Truth be told it is shorter than i expected though the longer I let it sit while waiting until the weather makes work possible, the longer it gets. I can be doing a whole lot of things not associated with boating or boat maintenance and suddenly, out of the blue, an idea for another project - a vitally important one - pops into my head and it goes on the list. This can be the frustrating part of boating in New England, even southern New England, the fact that there are so many things to be done which can't be done due to the weather.
I have been looking at pictures of CN 39s online and some of them really have been restored to fantastic shape, at least in the interior. Some of the pictures make it hard to believe that I am looking at the same boat as ABISHAG. Of course, with lots of money, one can do anything, ( Come on Publisher's Clearing House!) still there are a lot of things that can be done with the stuff already in my possession. and again, it really is the setting of priorities. ABISHAG could go into the water right now and be just fine, but as old friend, Ed Davis was want to say, "Preventive maintenance!" i would really like to tackle the wiring in ABISHAG. Most of the remaining wiring, that left over and in place from the great "ripping out" of last year, is as old as the boat and in in need of replacement, or at least maintenance. Neither of the florescent light fixtures in the main salon function. I don't know whether it is the bulbs that are gone or whether the wiring is so corroded that it is broken or producing too much resistance for it to function. I spent a rain day last spring tagging the wires that I could easily get too, but there are still "miles" that are un-tagged and unidentified. Electricity is still all voodoo to me but this work must be done. The electric anchor light and white steaming light on the main mast do not function, though again whether it is bulbs or wiring I can't say. The white steaming light and cockpit light on the mizzen are also inoperative and remain so for the same reasons. Of the engine gauges, the tach, the engine hour meter and oil pressure work but none of the other four. Last spring I disassembled the engine panel and removed and cleaning and corrosion blocked all of the them, but they continue not to work. It could be the gauges, it could be the sender, I simply don't know. But as with the nav lights it must be a priority.
Another priority is cleaning the engine room/compartment. There is 35 years worth of soot and oil residue and diesel film all over the place and it needs to be made to disappear. I cleaned the engine bed last year, something that really needed to be done. I am still trying to figure out where all of the dirt and oil scum comes from. How does "dirt" get on a boat that in on the water all the time? I have tried cleaning the bilge several times and it seems as though I am just going through layers and this time I want to get all the "gunk" out. When you don't, you get what Fred likes to refer to as "bilge breath," a rather unpleasant fragrance where permeates the atmosphere of the boat and even gets into any clothing stored on the boat, as well as the fabric on the cushions. So it is that cleaning the various surfaces just does work. It is a matter of dealing with the disease and not just the symptoms. Fred claims to have the solution and it involves a 2,500psi sprayer. Should be a rather interesting project!
And all that is just a small part of the List. Eventually, I will have to prioritize the List for that will determine the funds to be spent and when you don't have any funds, this is a major concern.
Thursday, January 24, 2013
I Knew This Was A Bad Thing To Do! ! ! !
SHIP'S LOG:
Yesterday was cold, brutally so, and when the wind blew, it was even colder. That made it a perfect day to go window shopping indoors. But not just any store mind you, but rather a special store, "WEST MARINE." Yes, I stepped over the edge and drove to the nearest West Marine Store, but with the purest of intentions. I was going, I told myself, merely check out some necessary items that will absolutely be need in order to launch ABISHAG come MAY? There were bottom paint can labels to read to make sure that I got the proper ablative paint. There was packing flax to examine. The was cordage and line to price, along with a host of bolts, screws, washers, nuts, pins and clips to find.
Then there were fenders to examine, after all, who couldn't use more fenders? There were pre-spliced, double-braided , color-coded dock line to investigate as mine are beginning to show their age. There were brand new, self-contained, plug and play refrigerators that could easily replace the now departed refrigeration system of yore. And there were tools, or at least some that I don't have but "surely need" - a polishing/sander; wire -stripping & cutting ratcheting pliers; the list is endless. There were cleats for the fenders, steps for the cockpit, boarding ladders, cabinets and doors, solar vents and hatches, degreasers and engine paint, bilge cleaners and paint, faucets and pumps, electrical panels and LED lights, as well as a whole host thingamabobs that are just wonderful and need to be had. . . . . lust is a terrible thing.
Of course, the only thing that kept my from going impulse-buying crazy is the fact that I don't have any money, at least not any more than the cost of a new gallon of bottom paint($130 by the way) and I have a lot of the other stuff already. True, it is old and used, but for the most part, I have what I need. It is just a question of sorting it out and using it. Yes, there are items that I will have to buy, but not right now. The first thing is to do a survey of ABISHAG and make an honest assessment of what ABSOLUTELY AND POSITIVE NEEDS TO BE DONE BEFORE LAUNCHING and what would be nice but is really not necessary. There is a real difference between what make her look pretty and what makes her safe and sail-able. The survey will have to wait until at least next week as it is too bleeding cold to do it today or even this week. Till then, I will sit with the catalogs and dream and will religiously stay away from West Marine, Defenders and Harbor Freight!
Yesterday was cold, brutally so, and when the wind blew, it was even colder. That made it a perfect day to go window shopping indoors. But not just any store mind you, but rather a special store, "WEST MARINE." Yes, I stepped over the edge and drove to the nearest West Marine Store, but with the purest of intentions. I was going, I told myself, merely check out some necessary items that will absolutely be need in order to launch ABISHAG come MAY? There were bottom paint can labels to read to make sure that I got the proper ablative paint. There was packing flax to examine. The was cordage and line to price, along with a host of bolts, screws, washers, nuts, pins and clips to find.
Then there were fenders to examine, after all, who couldn't use more fenders? There were pre-spliced, double-braided , color-coded dock line to investigate as mine are beginning to show their age. There were brand new, self-contained, plug and play refrigerators that could easily replace the now departed refrigeration system of yore. And there were tools, or at least some that I don't have but "surely need" - a polishing/sander; wire -stripping & cutting ratcheting pliers; the list is endless. There were cleats for the fenders, steps for the cockpit, boarding ladders, cabinets and doors, solar vents and hatches, degreasers and engine paint, bilge cleaners and paint, faucets and pumps, electrical panels and LED lights, as well as a whole host thingamabobs that are just wonderful and need to be had. . . . . lust is a terrible thing.
Of course, the only thing that kept my from going impulse-buying crazy is the fact that I don't have any money, at least not any more than the cost of a new gallon of bottom paint($130 by the way) and I have a lot of the other stuff already. True, it is old and used, but for the most part, I have what I need. It is just a question of sorting it out and using it. Yes, there are items that I will have to buy, but not right now. The first thing is to do a survey of ABISHAG and make an honest assessment of what ABSOLUTELY AND POSITIVE NEEDS TO BE DONE BEFORE LAUNCHING and what would be nice but is really not necessary. There is a real difference between what make her look pretty and what makes her safe and sail-able. The survey will have to wait until at least next week as it is too bleeding cold to do it today or even this week. Till then, I will sit with the catalogs and dream and will religiously stay away from West Marine, Defenders and Harbor Freight!
Tuesday, January 22, 2013
Boat Ownership In Winter
SHIP'S LOG:
I should never go up to visit ABISHAG during the winter! First of all, Baby, it's cold inside! Surprisingly, though there is no insulation, it retains "cold" very well and even seems to generate its own. I went up with Russ to haul out the sails and it as significantly colder inside the boat than it was outside. and when I say "significantly" I ain't whistling "Dixie!"
Secondly, visiting the boat during the winter when it is NOT in a shed or under some type of covering is guaranteed to induce major frustration. Looking over ABISHAG a whole host of projects spring to mind - items that need fixing, correcting, updating as well as numerous ideas for projects that I had never thought of before. But sadly, and frustratingly, there is nothing that I can do about them now. Snow covers the deck and the inside of a freezer would seem warm in comparison to being inside ABISHAG. Paints won't adhere, glues and adhesives won't set, cleaners and degreasers don't! About the only thing you can do in such weather conditions in "destruction," that is taking things apart, dismantling those things that need to be removed or repaired. Yet, the cold will make you fingers non-functioning so in reality you can't really do that either hence the frustration.
Inspired I looked up all the photos of Camper Nicholson 39 Center-cockpit ketches I could find to see what they looked like and there were some wonderful examples of boats that had really been "tricked out." And I kept think, "I could do this" or "I could do that," but I am held back by one small criteria, the lack of funds. There will be some things that i can don at little or no cost, but they all require weather above 50F which means waiting until the temperatures get there and again that is frustrating. And sitting here with a "DEFENDER INDUSTRIES" catalog or one from "WEST MARINE" doesn't help as running out the prices gives me indigestion. I will have to wait until the last weekend of March when Defender runs its annual "Marine Madness Sale" to buy bottom paint which, even with the sale, will run about $150. The good point about that is that I use ablative paint, bottom paint that is "soft," that wears away over the season. Wherever the paint remains on the hull, the bottom protection is still going on. The paint coverage from last year is still on 80-90% of the hull so all it will require is touch up on the spots where it is completely worn away and then a single coat overall. With a "hard" bottom paint, one must sand and scrape and prep and paint every year. It is the most odious task of getting a boat ready if you go in that direction. And every few years, you have to remove all of the bottom paint as it builds up layer upon layer and, if you don't do it, it will fall of in chucks. Ah, part of the fun of boat ownership.
I have hauled out the "Projects List" and have begun adding to it, making additions to the items and projects that must be done before the boat goes into the water. The additions include items that 1.) have been put off but need to be done - a lot of this is electrical stuff such as a.) completely tracing all of the electrical wiring; b.) removing the wires that go nowhere or which are connected to nothing (that seems a never ending battle); b.) install new wire and new connections to those electronic and electrical devices which haven't failed but are "iffy"; c.) removing those devices that no longer work or which were removed last year and repairing their "footprints," those holes and frames and other things that marked their former prescience.
2.) Finally repositioning the watermaker and wiring it up. Removing the old auto-pilot left a perfect spot for it in a locker in the stern but it was something I never got around to doing. In addition, there is the need to get the pressurized water system back online. For some reason, thought the pump works fine, it doesn't pump water. friend Fred, an expert in pumps and the like, assures me that it is simply a leak somewhere in the system. If it is just in a hose or possibly in a connection that will be fine as it will be a minor expense. If however, and why do I feel this will be the case, it is in the hot water tank, which is fairly well rust - at least externally - then we are talking a major expense. Of course, I have been without it for as long as I have owned ABISHAG but it is silly to have a system on the boat that doesn't work.
3.) And of course, there are all those little things that need doing and re-organizing and that list is beyond counting. Hopefully, I will win the publisher's Clearinghouse Sweepstakes and get $5,000 a week for life. Failing that, I will just do what I am able to do.
I should never go up to visit ABISHAG during the winter! First of all, Baby, it's cold inside! Surprisingly, though there is no insulation, it retains "cold" very well and even seems to generate its own. I went up with Russ to haul out the sails and it as significantly colder inside the boat than it was outside. and when I say "significantly" I ain't whistling "Dixie!"
Secondly, visiting the boat during the winter when it is NOT in a shed or under some type of covering is guaranteed to induce major frustration. Looking over ABISHAG a whole host of projects spring to mind - items that need fixing, correcting, updating as well as numerous ideas for projects that I had never thought of before. But sadly, and frustratingly, there is nothing that I can do about them now. Snow covers the deck and the inside of a freezer would seem warm in comparison to being inside ABISHAG. Paints won't adhere, glues and adhesives won't set, cleaners and degreasers don't! About the only thing you can do in such weather conditions in "destruction," that is taking things apart, dismantling those things that need to be removed or repaired. Yet, the cold will make you fingers non-functioning so in reality you can't really do that either hence the frustration.
Inspired I looked up all the photos of Camper Nicholson 39 Center-cockpit ketches I could find to see what they looked like and there were some wonderful examples of boats that had really been "tricked out." And I kept think, "I could do this" or "I could do that," but I am held back by one small criteria, the lack of funds. There will be some things that i can don at little or no cost, but they all require weather above 50F which means waiting until the temperatures get there and again that is frustrating. And sitting here with a "DEFENDER INDUSTRIES" catalog or one from "WEST MARINE" doesn't help as running out the prices gives me indigestion. I will have to wait until the last weekend of March when Defender runs its annual "Marine Madness Sale" to buy bottom paint which, even with the sale, will run about $150. The good point about that is that I use ablative paint, bottom paint that is "soft," that wears away over the season. Wherever the paint remains on the hull, the bottom protection is still going on. The paint coverage from last year is still on 80-90% of the hull so all it will require is touch up on the spots where it is completely worn away and then a single coat overall. With a "hard" bottom paint, one must sand and scrape and prep and paint every year. It is the most odious task of getting a boat ready if you go in that direction. And every few years, you have to remove all of the bottom paint as it builds up layer upon layer and, if you don't do it, it will fall of in chucks. Ah, part of the fun of boat ownership.
I have hauled out the "Projects List" and have begun adding to it, making additions to the items and projects that must be done before the boat goes into the water. The additions include items that 1.) have been put off but need to be done - a lot of this is electrical stuff such as a.) completely tracing all of the electrical wiring; b.) removing the wires that go nowhere or which are connected to nothing (that seems a never ending battle); b.) install new wire and new connections to those electronic and electrical devices which haven't failed but are "iffy"; c.) removing those devices that no longer work or which were removed last year and repairing their "footprints," those holes and frames and other things that marked their former prescience.
2.) Finally repositioning the watermaker and wiring it up. Removing the old auto-pilot left a perfect spot for it in a locker in the stern but it was something I never got around to doing. In addition, there is the need to get the pressurized water system back online. For some reason, thought the pump works fine, it doesn't pump water. friend Fred, an expert in pumps and the like, assures me that it is simply a leak somewhere in the system. If it is just in a hose or possibly in a connection that will be fine as it will be a minor expense. If however, and why do I feel this will be the case, it is in the hot water tank, which is fairly well rust - at least externally - then we are talking a major expense. Of course, I have been without it for as long as I have owned ABISHAG but it is silly to have a system on the boat that doesn't work.
3.) And of course, there are all those little things that need doing and re-organizing and that list is beyond counting. Hopefully, I will win the publisher's Clearinghouse Sweepstakes and get $5,000 a week for life. Failing that, I will just do what I am able to do.
Thursday, January 17, 2013
ALIVE!
SHIP'S LOG:
I am finally over my "24 hour tumor" or "flu" or "plague" or whatever it is that knocked me down for a few days. I certainly feel lucky that I was nowhere nearly as badly touched by it as some people evidently have been. My brush with it was bad enough and I am glad that it is "in my rear-view mirror."
An indication of just how well I feel can be seen in the fact that Russ and I are going to go up to ABISHAG and get the sails off and into storage. It will work best as Russ has a van and I do not. In point of fact, what we will be able to do in one trip with his van would have taken me three (3) trips in my little P.O.S. There are five (5) sails on the boat and while not particularly heavy, they are rather bulky as I was unable to lay them out and fold them properly. The genoa particularly is in need of a seriously better folding. Getting them out of the boat is necessary as they run the risk of becoming stained with mold-&-mildew if they spend the winter. in addition, they take up considerable space on the inside which will make work in the spring a lot more difficult. After all, spring is only weeks away and there will be lots of stuff to do and I will need the room to do it. I can't wait to start.
I am finally over my "24 hour tumor" or "flu" or "plague" or whatever it is that knocked me down for a few days. I certainly feel lucky that I was nowhere nearly as badly touched by it as some people evidently have been. My brush with it was bad enough and I am glad that it is "in my rear-view mirror."
An indication of just how well I feel can be seen in the fact that Russ and I are going to go up to ABISHAG and get the sails off and into storage. It will work best as Russ has a van and I do not. In point of fact, what we will be able to do in one trip with his van would have taken me three (3) trips in my little P.O.S. There are five (5) sails on the boat and while not particularly heavy, they are rather bulky as I was unable to lay them out and fold them properly. The genoa particularly is in need of a seriously better folding. Getting them out of the boat is necessary as they run the risk of becoming stained with mold-&-mildew if they spend the winter. in addition, they take up considerable space on the inside which will make work in the spring a lot more difficult. After all, spring is only weeks away and there will be lots of stuff to do and I will need the room to do it. I can't wait to start.
Tuesday, January 15, 2013
Being Sick Is No Fun
SHIP'S LOG:
I guess it is not supposed to be fun but somehow it should be less a drag than it is. I actually thought that I was on the downward slope of this latest cold/flu/plague but it seems not to be the case. The fever, which I thought had left, is making a return visit this morning. It is one of those "fun" visits where it feels like everything above my eyebrows has disappeared. It is a very interesting sensation, yet a little unnerving at the same time. And as tired as I feel and probably am, the thought of going back to bed is both appealing and unappealing at the same time. I spent the last few days crashed in bed and there is just no restful position I can assume there. I would just toss and turn and not get any rest at all, let alone any sleep. But being vertical is not better as I long to lay down and all I want to do is sleep. Ah, the problems of a case of the plague/flu/common cold and I didn't even get a real bad one.I wonder if I can fall asleep standing up?
I guess it is not supposed to be fun but somehow it should be less a drag than it is. I actually thought that I was on the downward slope of this latest cold/flu/plague but it seems not to be the case. The fever, which I thought had left, is making a return visit this morning. It is one of those "fun" visits where it feels like everything above my eyebrows has disappeared. It is a very interesting sensation, yet a little unnerving at the same time. And as tired as I feel and probably am, the thought of going back to bed is both appealing and unappealing at the same time. I spent the last few days crashed in bed and there is just no restful position I can assume there. I would just toss and turn and not get any rest at all, let alone any sleep. But being vertical is not better as I long to lay down and all I want to do is sleep. Ah, the problems of a case of the plague/flu/common cold and I didn't even get a real bad one.I wonder if I can fall asleep standing up?
Sunday, January 13, 2013
Typhoid Mary vs. Flu Sue
SHIP'S LOG:
As Russ and I traipsed around the country-side, every local newscast began with the most current details of the flu out break in that particular area. In some areas it was quite severe, with some deaths recorded, though few thank goodness. Still it was everywhere and it was probably due to the wide-spread nature of the outbreak that there were so few people out and about at the various tourist attractions we stopped to see.
But all good things come to an end, among them the trip and good health. For me, good health ended sometime Friday afternoon, worsened Friday night, and completely departed by Saturday mooring. I am not sure what I got: a 24 hour tumor, your basic cold, the flu or THE FLU, but in any case, I got it. It's the whole 9 yards: headache, fever, sweats, chills, upset stomach, runny nose, stuffed sinuses, and all the assorted aches and pains and debilitating effects of whatever it is that I got. SO it is lots of aspirin - for the aches and pains; Coke - for fluid upkeep and to deal with nausea and upset stomach; Pepto - for what was formally in must come out, but one wants it under control so to speak; and lots of sleep. sleep, sleep which can be hard when you are alternating between sweats and chills.
I was always thankful that I never came down with a cold/flu which on the ICW trip. It would actually have been a little bit frightening. When I get something like I am experiencing now, my body just shuts down. I crawl into bed with all of my "stuff" an arms length away and just crash until I am better. That would have been a little scary doing so anchored in a "crick" off the ICW somewhere and I am sure that any marina owner would have loved me renting a slip for a few days until I "got better' and would he mind stopping by once a day to make sure that I am "still alive."
My period of lucidity and "up-&-at-'em" is coming to an end. Time to crash again. Stay healthy!
As Russ and I traipsed around the country-side, every local newscast began with the most current details of the flu out break in that particular area. In some areas it was quite severe, with some deaths recorded, though few thank goodness. Still it was everywhere and it was probably due to the wide-spread nature of the outbreak that there were so few people out and about at the various tourist attractions we stopped to see.
But all good things come to an end, among them the trip and good health. For me, good health ended sometime Friday afternoon, worsened Friday night, and completely departed by Saturday mooring. I am not sure what I got: a 24 hour tumor, your basic cold, the flu or THE FLU, but in any case, I got it. It's the whole 9 yards: headache, fever, sweats, chills, upset stomach, runny nose, stuffed sinuses, and all the assorted aches and pains and debilitating effects of whatever it is that I got. SO it is lots of aspirin - for the aches and pains; Coke - for fluid upkeep and to deal with nausea and upset stomach; Pepto - for what was formally in must come out, but one wants it under control so to speak; and lots of sleep. sleep, sleep which can be hard when you are alternating between sweats and chills.
I was always thankful that I never came down with a cold/flu which on the ICW trip. It would actually have been a little bit frightening. When I get something like I am experiencing now, my body just shuts down. I crawl into bed with all of my "stuff" an arms length away and just crash until I am better. That would have been a little scary doing so anchored in a "crick" off the ICW somewhere and I am sure that any marina owner would have loved me renting a slip for a few days until I "got better' and would he mind stopping by once a day to make sure that I am "still alive."
My period of lucidity and "up-&-at-'em" is coming to an end. Time to crash again. Stay healthy!
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