17 days and counting
By Mike Jastrzebski
We scheduled Rough Draft's haulout for April 25th, seventeen short days away. We haven't hauled the boat or painted the bottom since we arrived in Ft. Lauderdale 6 years ago so it's definitely time. If all goes as planned we hope to have the bottom painted and be out of the yard no later than May 1st. Of course I can't remember the last time things went as planned on the boat.
We've been working on the canvas since we got back from our trip to Minnesota. I'm glad to say that the dodger's done and all Mary has left to do is make a connecting piece between the dodger and bimini. She also wants to put a small window in the bimini so we can keep an eye on the sails when the centerpiece is connected.
Here's a picture of Mary, the dodger, and the bmini. Keep in mind that before she started on this project she had not sewn anything since high school home ec, and that was a long time ago.
We have basically 2 1/2 weeks to finish 12 weeks worth of work, and lets face it that isn't going to happen. We're still determined to head over to the Bahamas around May 15th, buddy boating with Christine Kling. Any boat work not finished by then will remain unfinished until we head back to the states for the hurricane season.
Once in the Bahamas I will begin researching and writing the next Wes Darling novel, Abaco Blues. I did a lot of the work on Dog River Blues (A Wes Darling Mystery) while living on a mooring ball in Key West and I enjoyed the freedom and sense of isolation of living on a boat in the midde of a harbour. The joy of living on the water is why I titled this blog Write on the Water, and subtitled it, So you want to quit your job, move onto a boat, and write. It's the dream that's kept Mary and I going for the last fifteen years.
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