Michigan City's Washington Park Marina is going to see us for two more nights. It is a large, well run Marina and a great place for us to get ready for the Rivers. We are on dock 300 and the one directly across from us is 600. We wonder how many boats are really moored here. One thing we do know is that there is a lot of money floating near us.
Debbie went to the Marina Office to find out where the nearest market was located and the ladies found another boater who took her at least three miles to a market, waited while she shopped and brought her back! Now we are fulled stocked and have lots of "fresh" food!
While Debbie was shopping Tom removed the old GPS on the Nav Station and mounted the charger for the wench motor. When he opened the circuit breaker box, he was very complimentary of the engineering that went into this area. Take a look!
The laundry which was done last night was not fully dry so we hung it on mooring lines in the cockpit. We really do have a big
cockpit!
cockpit! We did not have to lock the door. Who would have tried to break in when they had to face a maze like this?
Now we have a question for you. What's missing?
Do you need a second hint?
If you guessed the sails and boom, you are correct. We spent the hot sun hours removing and folding sails and then storing them under our bed. We strapped the boom along the port side but may move it to along the mast when that is parallel to the water. We removed the battens and strapped them along the boom. We have four full sail battens. The lower ones would be too long to lay under our bed!
The four halyards and boom topping lift were attached to the mast. All sheets (main, spinnaker) except the jib lines were also placed under the bed. Our big hope is that we can put everything back together in about two months!
