I received my FCC radio license via email in the wee hours of the morning. I'm not sure a person actually laid eyes on it. Oh well, we're official. Deciding what to do about an Epirb is now on our list. We have an ancient one that is still registered to the previous owner and has a battery with an unknown status. Getting a new one sounds nice but then disposing of the old one without setting off an international incident then becomes an issue.
I taped off one of the sections of the top rail teak. We had had the front two sections on both sides done with natural teak Cetol in Brunswick but the back half of the boat was on me. Masking was not too bad except the ends and going around the cleat and rub strip.
For lunch had I a couple of grilled cheeses from the last of the sliced cheese. Paid some bills, read some, then grilled some hamburgers on the BBQ about dusk but only ate the small one. Ended up not leaving the boat all day. I tend to eat fairly lightly when left alone just out of shear laziness.
On Friday I did need to leave the boat, if only because I was developing a bit of an Alice's restaurant situation with the trash, and the ice was getting perilously low. One of my few habits that has carried over well from the house is when left alone, one of my first activities is to purge the fridge and freezer of all the stuff that has accumulated but will never be eaten (by humans).
I sanded down the rail I had masked in the areas that needed touch up, then wiped them down, first with a tack cloth, then some acetone. I touched up the areas with a chip brush because I had no intent of cleaning it when I was done. That went a little faster than expected, so I started working on the re-stitching on the leather wheel wrap. After watching a video on it I got maybe a foot done, but it's a start. I need to work on my knots for starting and stopping stitching.
I called Chelsea for her birthday then I headed to shore in the dinghy. First time off the boat in almost 48 hours. After a shower I decided to not drive in the Friday night concert traffic and stayed on foot. Quick hits of the french bakery, a pretty skeezy pizza parlor, and the liquor store I was good for the rest of the day. Back on the boat the Tortuga music festival was plenty loud for me. After dark I could see the lights from the stage.
The picture below is a sunrise from our mooring.
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