Some folks live on their boats year round and decorate them just like any other home.
One of my remaining chores was to change the boat zincs one last time this year. The heat exchanger zinc looked a little wasted, even considering it had been in a week longer than the others. I'm now hoping some of this is due to the constant use. The engine was running for most days for more than a month, averaging more than eight hours a day. That's a lot of water flowing by. We'll see how this compares to the next two or three months of still water, with the fish hanging of the side of the boat for backup.
Since our usual bottom cleaning guy hadn't gotten back to us yet and we only had a few days we were fortunate to catch Bobby in the parking lot after after he had finished someone else's boat. He said there was just a light scum since our last cleaning in Annapolis five weeks ago. We'll see how it looks at the beginning of the year, but we have a bottom paint job in our near future. The prop zinc was still there, but obviously we had lost a lot of weight in just five weeks. Again, I hoping it it the agitation from use rather that some sort of other electrical problem but we'll see at the beginning of the year.
A lot of what needed to be done was just cleaning, sorting, and organizing. I also needed to pack for an almost three month road trip. This included a meeting, which compared to my current lifestyle is relatively formal, like shirts with collars, closed toed shoes, and for the first time in six months - pants! After that we were going to be in some warm places like the valley, and some not so warm places like northern Arizona. I know I'm overpacking, but it's easier than whittling down the list any further (some variant of "My note would be shorter if I had more time"). The birds in the marsh across from the dock make a racket every morning to get me going.
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