Back to the US of A and Gloucester - in a shower of rain or two
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Date Tuesday 6 September 2011 to Monday 12 September
2011 Was it ever wet. It was raining when I arrived in Boston and it did
not let up for 48 hours during which time the boat was re-launched and I
re-rigged the back stays and mizzen boom and got very wet in the process
however “worse things happen at sea”. Rose’s Yard had some fascinating boats that David Rose driving
the boat lift manoeuvred around with apparent ease.
During the monsoon I also managed a cycle trip to Radio Shack, some 2
miles away to purchase a replacement What I had thought might be a leisurely week with time to explore those
parts of Gloucester previously missed turned out to be a very busy week of
early mornings to catch Sailmakers, mechanics and the like and late nights
putting the boat back together after first dismantling part of the saloon to
install an updated WiFi amplifier, a wireless router and a media server linked
over the boats network – good geeky stuff which unusually all works. We
now have an internal WiFi network that can give multi-user access to the
internet, subject to us linking in to a WiFi hotspot, and the ability to stream
video and music to both televisions. Not exactly plain sailing and an anathema
to the founding fathers of the OCC. By the time Sid Shaw, OCC
Rear Commodore US South East who had kindly offered to crew the boat south, arrived
on Monday all was ship shape, shopping was done and food stowed. It was then
off to the fuel dock to both refuel and take delivery of our extensively
repaired gennaker which had become accidentally part unfurled in a thunderstorm
in July which shredded the top panels.
I could not resist the dog pic. ‘Bear’ belongs to Josh
Bevins the sailmaker; he assures me that most of Bear is fur. Josh had carried
out a difficult and time consuming repair for which I am most grateful.
Hot air perhaps, hair; well? |
