Location: Deltaville, VA
Position: 37 32.916N 076 19.765W - don't forget to check our position on Google Earth
We're officially living aboard Rachel now along with piles of our worldly goods. We've spent our first week aboard working like dogs - again! Some of you know how much work is necessary to liveaboard, the rest of you just think we have an easy life lounging on deck, drinking margaritas and watching the sunset!! Not so!! Hopefully at some point in the near future we will get to launch the boat and start having fun!! Although we hate to admit it, we are actually having fun getting our boat jobs done. We do seem to have a lot more achy joints and muscles than in our previous life, though!!
Dinghy Progress: Mark finally did the dirty deed. After we spent all winter building our new dinghy, Mark sawed it in half. We can hear you now - "What!?! No way!!!" Yep. It's a nesting dinghy and will fit inside itself on our foredeck (we certainly hope so, anyway...) allowing us to have a larger dinghy than we would with a non-nesting variety.
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Rachel Progress: Mark is working on the through hulls and prop doing maintenance, continuing the dinghy project, and preparing Rachel's bottom for painting. Julie borrowed some scaffolding and has sanded one side of Rachel's teak and started refinishing it, in preparation for a new metal rub rail which will protect the woodwork. |
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 Julie sanding Rachel's bottom |
 Mark paints the bottom, now we are ready to go in the water |
Stowing Progress: In between all our outside projects, we are also slowly finding homes for and stowing all of our belongings. And that's just the start - we have to make another trip to Blacksburg to pick up the rest of the stuff we couldn't fit in the van on the first trip! And it's not so easy living aboard when the boat is in the yard - getting on and off requires climbing the ladder to get up on deck. Friendship and Fun Progress: We are re-establishing our friendships with our Deltaville friends in the evenings at the marina and in the boatyard. We're hoping to launch in 8-10 days, then maybe we'll be able to kick back and sip a few of those margaritas... |
