moving day

We had to move out of our subleased slip in Everett because our sliplords returned from their summer cruise to Alaska. Luckily Jarred had made friends with someone while we were in the boatyard earlier this summer, and this someone is still on his cruise to Alaska and was happy to sublease his slip to us.

So, on Sunday morning we motored over to our new slip, a two minute trip. We should have taken a little joyride out to the sound, but we had projects to do. We are so looking forward to sailing this boat.

I like the new slip a lot better. It is closer to the main drag in the marina, only two boats in, so we see a lot more boats go by. They are mostly larger powerboats.

But even better, there are other active project boats on our new dock, and so we fit in better here. We were sort of a spectacle on our previous dock, since every boat around ours was either all ready to go or neglected. We were in the middle of those two extremes, with not much in common with either. But here at the new dock we got nods of approval as we came in.

In fact one of the active project boats three boats down from us was a long term tenant in the Everett boatyard when we had just bought our first boat and spent five months there too. That was 14 years ago!

And the new dock has a covered entrance and automatic glass sliding doors instead of a chainlink gate. I feel super slick holding up my key fob and stepping through those sliding doors.

Today we added more deck hardware, which takes two people - me on deck holding a screwdriver and Jarred below racheting nuts onto the bolts. And then the boat got its first deck scrubbing and rinsing since probably 2002, so it's finally clean enough for company to visit.

in the new slip and after first deck bath.