July 18, 2005

Well, its been a busy summer for me, and that has lead to disappointingly few days on the boat. Since that last June 23 update, I think I've managed just two sailing days! I've been aboard a number of other times to take care of maintenence projects in preparation for the upcoming summer cruise however, including the addition of a new foot-pump for fresh water and a beefy bronze mooring bitt in addition to a number of other smaller adjustments and upgrades.

The summer cruise plans for Glissando and Dasein are remarkably similar this year. In fact, Tim and I are both bringing our boats up to Penobscot Bay solo, and meeting our respective families in Bucks Harbor, so Tim and I decided to tandem along for the first week of our cruise. With departure looming, we both decided to get a jump on the provisioning and on Monday we headed down to the club two hours before launch service began and rowed out to the boats so that we could bring them in to the dock and load. On the way we paused to take some pictures of Dasein's screwy port-side waterline so that I can remedy the issue this winter.

After a couple of hours at the dock loading gear and scrubbing the boat down, I returned to the mooring to organize and stow all the cruise gear. As always, I was amazed at how much stuff the various lockers can hold, and they happily swallowed all the gear, leaving more room in any number of stowage locations. After another couple of hours I was finished and returned home. Departure is planned for Saturday, July 23.