June 6, 2010

Carol came up for the weekend, so while we had a great weekend, not much got done on Circadian. We did get up at 5:30 am on Saturday to get to the Napa Valley Marina swapmeet on time, a great sacrifice on Carol's part that she handled like a good sport. She managed to sell the leftover accessories from my old deceased liferaft, and I sold one of the 33 lb Bruce anchors. I bought a couple of fishing lures, a nice cup-holder and the big score, a Morse shifter/throttle control.It was in nearly perfect condition and I paid only $35 for it. It even has a switch and wiring for a pilot light that indicates when you are in neutral. They go new for over $350. When I'm a lot further down 'the list,' I'll replace the corroded one on Circadian that doesn't even have gear position indicating labels.

After we abandoned the swapmeet, I gave Carol a tedious lecture on anchoring theory and a brief practicum on using Circadian's new windlass and chain-stopper. We also tried out the new headset walkie-talkies I got from Cruising Solutions. They were pretty cheap, and look it, but worked just fine. I think they'll make communicating on board much easier, safer and calmer. It's really nice to be able to talk to one another in a normal tone of voice! They're kind of hard to find, so if you're interested, you can check them out at http://www.cruisingsolutions.com/headsets

I'll have to work hard this week to try to make up for the time spent having fun! Ohhhh the guilt of it all!