May 26 - June 3, 2017 deck job and boat jobs

deck number 2 … Lily's boy friend dug the 4 ft sono tube holes, joe levelling everything and

Lily filling in

mixing the cement and pouring

and of course signing the wet cement

Lily, Mike and Mars, fur baby

our yacht club is busy these days ..our friends Otto and Paulien returning

to their slip after fixing the lights on the mast

Ron and Susie heading to the mast crane, a good day to put the mast up

this is Warpath, the 38 ft that I have been painting the interior and doing some 

spring cleaning inside and out … she's all ready now for the sails

one of our reno jobs is working on a 4 plex, upgrading the exterior and painting

scraping old paint and painting the front porch..

all work finished on this project

May 11 - 25, 2017 home and building our first deck

it is good to be at home …. spending some quality time with my daughter, Lily, walking one of her clients, Ella

we need some veggie garden space, so some raised beds are being built

the fiddle heads are ready

visiting Jody, Val and Daisy at the farm

a working windmill that keeps our beer cold in the cement trough

( a must )

visiting my sister Joyce and grand daughter Lydia

my niece Sara, with Niall and shy Lydia

our first deck of the season, for my sister and brother in law

a chilly day in May

having good tools a must

deck Number 1, completed in 4 days, thanks to Joyce and Rowland for

dismantling the old one

May 6 - 10, 2017 haul out and returning home

paving trucks working their way thru New Providence's one way streets, that are

only wide enough for golf carts

it was a slow process, they are actually going the

wrong way on the one way street, there is only one way into the settlement and

one way out 

the ferry is waiting for the trucks to return empty, then it goes back to the main land

to fill the trucks up and a few hours later they return to continue working

here the truck are returning empty

back on the ferry 

a door knob on the New Plymouth Museum

the grave yard dated 1861

with only a few days left on the boat and our food supply is

running out, we treated our selves to a take away

soaking up the sun and warmth

back to boat chores, cleaning the stainless of rust

haul out day, positioning Modaki stern first

haul out  9am

well the prop will need some work

anode needs to be replaced

bringing our dinghy to be put under the boat, it cost is $70 in yard fees to

get it out of the water and moved to Modaki

laundry day

strapped down

Susan and Don on Old Sam, Nova Scotia had us over for lunch, they hauled out

just before us

yup this anode is done after 6 months

illegal in Canada and USA

the yard gave us Sea Hawk for our prop

strapped down for Hurricane Season

dinghy wrapped and strapped down

we have 6 jack stands and a cradle supporting Modaki, she should be good for

150 knot winds

removing our solar panels

lockers emptied and hung in the salon for more ventilation

lines hung and all electrical units unplugged and batteries

out of all flashlights

our bags unloaded from the boat

all the wood wrapped up, winches wrapped

diesel and gas cans strapped inside the cockpit and covered for the summer heat

… we took the temperature in the shade and it was 90F and in the sun 109F

one last thing we had to tie all the jack stands together, before

getting on the ferry for the mainland  $30

then we had Elizabeth our taxi lady pick us up and head to Marsh Harbour, as $85 dollar

ride to our hotel room $150, then another taxi ride to the airport $15 for our flight

home

Eleuthra Islands

Niagara Falls

coming into Toronto

CN Tower, we got thru customs and Terminal 3 okay, 3 hour wait for

the Grey Bruce Airbus to take us back to Owen Sound

.. we arrived just before midnight, Lily, my daughter, had our fridge stacked

full of food and some Chinese Take Out waiting, and Sue Allison

stocked the fridge with beer 

IT IS GOOD TO BE BACK HOME !!!!