The 5 hour boat cleaning

 First of all, on this day of remembering The Fallen on 9-11, May they Rest In Peace.  I’d like to thank all the people on the front line of keeping our country going.  One realizes our lives here in the United States of America continues to function when everybody does what they can.  It’s sorta like a big chain, if one link is disrupted, everything becomes a big mess. So thank you again to all Americans for doing what you do to support all of our lives!       Today was a work day, we washed the boat.  First we washed the boat deck, aka the flybridge. Next we washed the bow and moved on to wash the Portuguese Bridge, side decks, back deck, swim step and transom.  I got a wild hair and decided to also wash the hull.  We have never washed it before and it was very overdue.  I must say Painkiller looks pretty good.  After that 5 hours was finished, we were able to move the boat to a new slip here in the marina, one that has a 50amp service.  Since it is supposed to be warming up again, yuck!!, we’ll need all 220Volts to run the a/c and the spot we left only had 30amp, which made the a/c shut off since there was not enough power available for it to run correctly. I slept through that class at electrical school, so I hope I am parroting that information correctly.  We walked over to the Safeway (I didn’t know they were in this part of the country, but nice, I’ll take it).  They had a very unusual sign, but it sure made it easy to find the store.  Going back to the boat, we’ll have shrimp cocktail for dinner, fast and easy! A good day in Boatland.


Safety first is our motto! Guess these folks disagree.

Boat washing.  Hope this counts as exercise!

Can anyone think of anything clever to say about this pic?I’m open to suggestions .

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