2005
#1 February 27th Reassembly
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From
Phyllis:
I
am writing this while looking out the window of our rental
house in Maine, admiring another gorgeous sunset over the
beautiful waters of Penobscot Bay. There is about two inches
of snow on the ground and on as much of the rocks as stick
up above the water at high tide. The window I am sitting next to
is only about six feet from the high tide mark; we are as
close to living on the water as we can get without being on
the boat!
Speaking of the boat, Morgan’s Cloud is looking a lot
better than she did when we arrived at Billings Diesel and
Marine at Stonington, Maine in September 2003. She’s also looking a lot better than she did
when we wrote our last newsletter in October 2004. Her hull is
now sparkling white with a dark blue boot stripe and her decks
are covered with gray Treadmaster (a rubber matting with
raised diamonds). Her new paint job is thanks to Billings and
her Treadmaster is thanks to John and I. |
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It continues to amaze me how long it takes to do anything on a
boat. In this case, it took two months of hard labour to
template, cut out and glue down the Treadmaster (along with
reinstalling all the deck fittings). But it was well worth the
effort: No more death-defying slides across the foredeck when
it snows as used to happen when the decks were covered with
non-skid paint.
We are also well along with the new dodger, we have shiny new
stainless steel handrails in place of the old wooden ones
(even less to varnish now) and there are many other
modifications/improvements that we have made and are planning
to make in the next few months as we work hard to get Morgan’s
Cloud ready for sailing.
We have a tentative launch date of May 2nd with plans to spend
the summer of 2005 cruising in Maine, Nova Scotia and
Newfoundland. See you out there!
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