The predicted
rains arrived around 5am this morning.
It was enough to awaken Pete, but I blissfully slept on. Since we were too tired to anticipate the
rains last night, he got up to set up the drip cloths in the galley area. We have had issues with the windows
leaking. He had removed and resealed
them last spring, but the butyl tape he used was dried out. Since then it has been a challenge to find
the leaking spots to seal. As a result,
we always drape the plastic over the galley along with containers to collect
the drips. To keep me from waking, he
turned on the red lights we use for night cruising as was very quiet.
Before returning
to bed he wanted to check the radar. As he went to grab his glasses from next
to the bed, he realized they were not where they should be. Pete’s vision is so
bad that anything more than 15 inches from his face become fuzzy blobs. He
compensates well, but he really can’t see. So, the red lights went back on and he began
checking other areas of the boat where he might have left them. When they could
not be found in the main salon, he tried searching by the bed. Since it was
still dark outside, he needed additional light from the flashlight, which he
cupped with his had in an effort not to wake me. Unfortunately, after 20 minutes with no
success, he woke and told me to be very careful where I moved or walked because
they could be anywhere; in the bed, on the floor, who knows. I get out of bed
very carefully, watching where I put my feet, and start searching. He had already checked to see if he had the
glasses on his forehead (which he sometimes does when he is looking at
something very close up. His close-up
his vision is better than perfect!) and they were not there. After about 5
minutes, Pete starts to chuckle and calls to me. He couldn’t figure out why, with the light
from the flashlight, the patterns on the bed cover and the cover of the books
by the bed were so clear. He finally
touched his face and found the glasses perched on his nose. It took a while to stop laughing. Apparently, looking for glasses under red
lights confused his brain!
Since it was
only 6 am, we returned to bed. I was able to catch a few more zzzz’s, but Pete
was wide awake. He used the time to
research dinghy motors. With the Black
Friday deals, he hopes we can get lucky. He spent quite a while researching
different engines and checking out prices between Defender and West
Marine. In the end, Black Friday deals
didn’t cover the engines. We decided to
order through E-bates for West Marine, Delaware. That way we don’t have to pay sales tax or
shipping and get money back from E-bates PLUS West Advantage Rewards Cash
Back. That made it quite a deal!
When we checked
in yesterday, we were told that two of the liveaboards here in the marina, were
hosting a Thanksgiving Dinner for cruisers.
Unfortunately, with all the rain and wind, we never found out where it
was to be. Instead, we had our own
Turkey dinner onboard, watched the Macy’s Thanksgiving Parade, the Westminster
Dog Show, the movie “Overboard” and some football. I did write up some of the blog, but again
the internet was poor.
The rain was
quite heavy at times, but it was the wind that was a surprise. Our weather app on the phone showed the hour
to hour forecast of winds NNW at 11 with 50 – 100 % chance of rain. However,
the radar had an orange / yellow blob over St. Augustine all day long while the
current conditions gave the wind speeds at 20-25 mph with gusts of 35mph! Passage weather confirmed the higher gusts
through early tomorrow morning.
Hopefully, they will have lessened up by our departure in the morning.
We hope everyone
had a wonderful Thanksgiving!~~~ /) ~~ K & P
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