Friday at last and probably a short day for me (again). This is the only time of year I can get away – in  a few weeks we will start fairly heavy haul out schedule…

Hopefully this will be the last in a long line of dreary, wet, dismal days. We do have TrappeToberfest coming up this weekend and the cooler weather should prove to make it a good time…

It’s coming down in buckets today. It does put a stranglehold on some projects we wanted to accomplish but we will manage somehow. We had an MJM go to final survey for settlement only 2…

The keel on the Grand Banks 42 has finally gotten dry enough forward to begin the repairs. We need to get this together so this boat can leave. The parts that are dry enough were…

More overcast weather lasting at least until Thursday. So much for sunny bright photos for the blog. I ended up taking a rare half day on Friday so I don’t have many photos anyway. We…

It’s pretty gnarly out there today and when I spoke to John first thing this morning, it was not much better up in Oyster Bay. Evidently they ran the first race yesterday but since he…

Another overcast day but yesterday we only had one little rain incident and I suspect we won’t get any today. The owner of the 42 took off last night to moor out and get acclimated…

Today is launch day for the 42 and they are strapping it up as we speak. The owners arrived last night and were very pleased with the new paint and windows and extremely pleased that…

I went off to the dentist yesterday afternoon to have my permanent crown installed. It is amazing how many people live for their cell phones. Almost everybody in the waiting room seemed to be doing…

Almost Fall-like here today. It was down right chilly in the evenings over the weekend. We are on the final countdown on the 42 – the owner should be here tomorrow. Still a lot of…