I think we were both super excited to have a day off from boat jobs. We woke up early (before 7am) and had coffee and breakfast before heading to the lounge for our showers. Mark made a few phone calls and we headed out to St. Augustine before 10 am.
Our first stop (okay we did boat shopping today) was at “The Irish Sail Lady” to see if our spinnaker could be repaired. Back in April 2020, as we were crossing from the Bahamas to Lake Worth, our spinnaker caught on one of our anchors (while we were nicely sailing along) and ripped badly across the whole width of the sail. The sail people in St. Augustine took a look and said it would be more cost effective to buy a new used spinnaker (which is what our ripped one was when we bought in 6 years ago). So they helped us find another spinnaker and it is being shipped to their location. The sail folks will take a look at the sail for us to make sure it’s okay.
Our next stop was a flooring outlet where we were super lucky to find a remnant piece of carpet to replace what we currently have in the main cabin. The current carpet was purchased back in Port Charlotte and it definitely needs to be replaced.
As I went into Michael’s (need more yarn to crochet another blanket!), Mark spent a bit of time on the phone, ordering our new “portlights” (I would call them portholes but this company doesn’t use that term). We are replacing all of the portholes on the boat with these new ones. It will be a big job but there’s no real hurry to install all of them this fall. There are a few current portholes that leak, so they are top of the list to be replaced once the new ones arrive.
When we returned to Reynolds, some of our Amazon orders had arrived. One in particular caught Mark’s eye and he’s calling it our printoaster. It is a toaster but it has a tray that makes it look like a printer. It’s a relatively small toaster so it fits in the space we have but it also has a slide out tray – very cool. We’ll try in tomorrow morning.
So it’s back to boat jobs in the morning. Hopefully we will feel refreshed and ready to tackle the new jobs on our lists. We have a couple of cooler days coming but it is supposed to be sunny so outside work won’t be too bad.
Crimson Kathryn and her crew 