Into the Yard

We took PG to the yard today. We've given them quite a list and hope to have her back in a few weeks. Matt took her to Pittsburg single handed and I met him there in the car. It was such a beautiful day I hated to miss the boat ride but we're glad we didn't drive two cars up Friday night. Traffic was horrible. 

Rainy Delta Weekend

We finally had another weekend at the boat after several weekends spent house hunting. Now that we're under contract we can get back to enjoying our weekends!  Ox Bow had a cruise out this weekend but we hadn't signed up since we didn't know what our plans would be, so we spent the weekend in our slip, listening to the pitter patter of rain on the metal shed roof. 

We also cleaned adhesive residue off one  side of Spirit. I'll have to take a photo as it's actually pretty amazing. We'd bought stick on patches to display the registration numbers. Unfortunately they didn't stick all that well and all the edges were peeled up. We finally got disgusted with them and peeled them completely off. And of course even though they didn't stick all that well, they left a big mess of adhesive residue! 

We weren't sure what to get the residue off with as we didn't want to harm the dinghy tubes. We ordered a new oar lock as we'd broken one quite some time ago. It came with a 1oz sample of some kind of "orange off" stuff and a little white scruby pad. I won't pretend it was "wipe on, wipe off"-we used the entire bottle and a bit of elbow grease- but it got every bit of residue off and the area we cleaned looks brand new. We'll definitely get more of the product to get the residue off the other side and clean the rest of the boat. Good stuff. 

Meanwhile I've researched the best way to apply the registration numbers and it looks like a stencil and a sharpie is the way to go! So once we have Spirit all cleaned up we'll use that method to reapply the numbers. We'll post photos of the process. Coming soon...