It’s so much fun to be in the USA at the end of November – we can celebrate Thanksgiving again! Today I cooked a turkey (13 lbs) and we had a very nice Thanksgiving dinner! It was a beautiful day – sunny and warm (sorry) and we spent the day doing smaller boat jobs.
The generator job is finally completed but not as successfully as desired. There is still an oil leak but it’s much less and it looks like the leak is coming from a place that can’t be reached unless the generator is removed from the boat (and that’s not going to happen this season). So the generator is going back into its place and Mark is moving onto other jobs.
Sometimes moving onto maintenance jobs can lead to more jobs. Our attention moved to the dinghy – we put it in the water and reattached the outboard motor to it. While doing this job, Mark discovered that the pulley in the davit on the motor side is broken, so now that needs to be fixed! It seems to always be that way, take one job off the list and add another!
I said it is Thanksgiving but more importantly, it’s the Christmas season and that is made very apparent by all the decorations going up in the marina and in the town. We went to St. Augustine to see their “Nights of Lights” festival. It was pretty and there were lots of lights but they were all white (and I’m not a huge fan of all white lights – I like colour!). We went with Jane and Steve (who left this morning, heading to the Bahamas) and had a great night out.
Our favourite thing to do is to chat with Evelyn and Caroline. We try to do an audio or video chat with the girls once a week using messenger. It’s so much fun to catch up on their week. In our last chats, we had some huge laughs with Evelyn as she told us about her conference in Washington. Our chat with Caroline involved some deep talk about wood and wall construction as Caroline works towards making a gallery space at her home – very cool and exciting!
It looks like we will be leaving Reynolds Park in the beginning of December to move to Berkman Plaza Marina. We’ll be storing the boat at this marina while we are back home for Christmas. We’ll probably be here at Reynolds for another week or so and then we’ll move and head home.
(All mizzen mast hoisting photos courtesy of Jane Holler – thanks Jane!)
Crimson Kathryn and her crew 