San Diego: painted
San Diego: painted
Fish tacos and a local micro-brewery beer were the reward. The reason: yesterday I finished painting GANNET.
As regular readers know I have been painting GANNET forever. I painted the interior soon after I took possession of the little boat last year. I anti-fouled her bottom in April of this year. I painted her topsides just before she was towed west last month. And this past week I painted her deck. Excluding her mast and boom, which I plan to replace, there is nothing left to paint, inside or out, from keel to mast step. While as always my workmanship will not bear close scrutiny, the final result is the vision I had.
I have been thinking about going sailing tomorrow, possibly around to San Diego Bay, where I could anchor or get an over-night slip, or just turn around and go out to sea. But there is almost no wind now or predicted. WindAlert shows 4.3 knots at nearby Mission Bay Yacht Club and a maximum gust tomorrow of a fierce 7 knots.
You might check the SPOT tracking page. If I go, I’ll turn the SPOT on, but at the moment that doesn’t seem likely.
One reader commented that ten minute updates to the SPOT tracking page are excessive for sailboats. I concur; but there is no way to set any other interval, except to turn the unit on and off, and that is too much trouble.
Within a few minutes of my posting the previous entry in which I noted that I have not decided between Command or Control Central for my present and usual position when in GANNET’s Great Cabin, sitting on an aft facing Sportaseat on the floorboards, I received an email from a reader who said he thinks “Central” by itself is the appropriate term. I agree. Central it is. Thanks, Tim.
Thursday, November 1, 2012