Sunday, April 21, 2002
We arrived at the Marina under a cloudy sky a little after 3:00 pm last Sunday afternoon after trying to leave the house and finding one more little thing to do first over and over and over again. Finally we decided if we didn't go now, we would have to wait until next week-end, which is what we had been doing for the last month (or two), so we just got in Johns truck and left. It's not that we didn't want to go before then, we just had not been able to find any free time since December....
when we just up and bought a house. Not just any house, the house of my dreams. Sorta the same story as when we got Whisper took one look and then a second and jumped in headfirst. No ifs, ands or buts. Come to think of it, it was the same way we got married too. Hmm... not very deep thinkers.
Anyway, not to dwell on our new estates since this is a sailing site and all. Maybe we will sneak a few pics of the manor in later.
Whisper was there floating high in the water and looking 
good. We stepped aboard and opened the hatch and peeked inside, not knowing what we'd find, and... whew, the cabin was dry as a bone with everything intact. NO HORNETS! The rain water had gathered in the back but not too deep, not enough to spill over into the main part of the boat. John got the hand pump out and started sucking up water, I held the hose toward the drain. We sat and talked as he pumped, about how good she looked and how glad we were to be there. I made some silent promises about never, ever neglecting her and thanked her for being such a good, unsinking boat. Rhonda
John's note:
This trip we: put the motor back on, changed the main halyard so both of them operate from the cockpit now, brought back our tool boxes, bailed out the rainwater (gotta fix that, tried once), scrubbed the cockpit, reattached the depth finder.
To do; Add the rudder (new parts, pretty!), bring back the battery, haul the other 4 loads of vital stuff back into the boat, mount the anchor mount on the front rail, add a jib downhaul, go sailing. Maybe we will test the swing keel first, see if it lowers.
