Wednesday 2 October 2013

BOATING ON THE HARD

Mucking around with boats when they are out of the water is called "Boating on the hard".  A wise man once said "If you don't like mucking around with boats, you better not buy one, because there is a lot of mucking around that goes on when you own a boat, that has nothing to do with the water".  On today's list of mucking, is to put our rear deck cushions and the outboard motor inside the boat, drop down the antennas, remove and stow  all her lines and bumpers and generally stow everything away. 
 
Then next we have to clear a path down the starboard side of the boat to install our staircase/storage/ladder.  They left us enough room for that staircase and we certainly need it for access to the boat and for storing stuff. 

 
So tomorrow's chore will be to make a couple of runs, out to Gimli.  Borrow a trailer, pick up our staircase/storage/ladder, bring it back to RMYC, then take the trailer back to Gimli and pick up our Daughter and Son-in-laws boat and bring it back into town,  picking up our haystack tarp for our boat on the one of these  trips. 
 
 
 THAT'S THE MUCKING ABOUT THAT SHOULD KEEP US BUSY FOR THE WHOLE DAY TOMORROW
 
Two trips to Gimli in one day proved a bit much so, we will do another one another day.