Monday, December 01, 2008

First Morning - New Home Dock

Up early first morning at new home dock.
The remainder of the day was not quite as peaceful...
Upon returning later in the morning the strong front blew through and was swinging SV Athena to and fro in her very narrow slip, her hull banging against one of the wood pilings and scratching her up.... according to the neighbors that retied her... and yes, I found the scratch marks :(
Well, I'm not too fond of others retying the boat... however, it's better than having her smash apart! I spoke to the dock-master to try and get a wider slip. We'll be moving into a slightly larger slip in a couple weeks, and working on a new bumper board. Hopefully after season, we can get an even wider slip... Spent the most of the rest of the day watching Athena and her lines, formulating a better plan of attack for dock lines and bumpers, and securing the banging halyards more better ;)
Meanwhile the stuff box keeps drip drip drip dripping... a drip that has been rather quick since a couple weeks before departure from Nokomis...

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

Enjoying this blog! I'm a sailor on the FL west coast, too. Can't seem to find the name of your new marina. I kept my boat at Dunedin Marina.