It hasn’t *only* been about the bottom of the boat though… Here’s what else we’ve been doing:
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Sewing funny little cushions (out of Mexican doormats and left over foam), and making Tostadas (again and again and again!)
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Working on the hoses that lead from the toilet to the thru-hull (hole in the hull of the boat that lets water in and out)
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Trying to decipher which one of these spices is pepper... mostly they sell pepper with lemon, pepper with chili, or pepper with something else. SO hard to find just pepper!!
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Jonathan's beloved windvane panel... because running a painting business all summer and then painting the bottom of the boat 4 times wasn't *quite* enough painting for him... The cobbler's kids may not have shoes, but the painter's boat definitely has paint!!! 🙂
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Jon & Davide, one of the many friends he made -- all the workyard guys loved him because he would stop and practice his Spanish with them. Whenever I couldn't find Jon, I'd go to the guard shack and find him hanging out 🙂
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The newly installed decals. There was a fight about a comma after 'Vancouver'. I said you needed it to let the reader know there was another line coming. Apparently this makes me a nerd, but even worse, an incorrect nerd. So I lost this argument (But I saved the comma, just in case...)
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Extremely happy to have the SSB radio working, and to be listening to the "Sonrisa Net", which tells us the weather and forecasts for the area -- My call-sign is VA7LMK, just in case you wanted to know!
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And this morning, feeling pretty darn happy to have the land portion of this adventure behind us, and a beautiful looking boat to show for it!