A buddy of mine, Oscar, gave me a hand with the lines yesterday and we took Jargo over to the travel lift to inspect the bottom.  I was worried that after two years the bottom paint would be worn out and covered with marine growth.  To my amazement she looked great.  There was only a little bit of slime on the upper two feet and that power washed right off.  We also cleaned off some significant barnacle growth on the prop which had a significant impact in the handling.  She’d steady grown less responsive at lower RPMs and it was all due to a dirty prop.  The last trick was replacing the sacrificial zinc anodes on the prop shaft and grudgeon and we splashed her back in the water.  It was a good morning.

The coming front is a strange one.  It runs more NNE/SSW than I like and they are showing up to 40+ knot winds on Wednesday.  That’s just too much.  I may still be able to let it blow through then ride the tail end of the norther down, but I won’t know until we get a more accurate forecast and that just takes time.  Either way, if I am going at all I have to get out of this marina before this front blows all of our water out and I get stuck on the bottom again.  Not sure where I am going yet, but the beautiful thing is, I can go anywhere.

Lee Winters
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