Scraping away…

C.E. Grundler

Time sure doesn’t fly when you’re scraping away decades of bottom paint, which is why as we drove up to the boat this morning my assistant and I were debating what day it was. It’s been all hands on deck as we check off the punch list towards seeing Annabel Lee afloat again, at long last. My daughter’s significant other has been lending me a hand on boat-work, and in exchange I’m trading cars with the kids for the summer. He and my daughter are taking a cross country road trip to several national forests; my JettaTDI wagon will give them far better mpg as well as more room for their camping gear, and I’ll get back a car covered in great bumper stickers.

We haven’t scraped up to the bootstrap – we’re still debating lowering it to match the actual waterline – and there’s a whole lot of sanding and sealing to follow, but we’re definitely getting there. I’ve been splitting my days between intensive writing and equally intensive boat time, fueled by the headway I’m making. Over the coming weeks the running gear will be going back together, the decks finished up, we’ll be dealing with the salon windows — and then it’s into the water. And on that note, I’m getting back to work.

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