While we are waiting for the postman to bring us all our boat goodies we are pretty much just hanging around on the boat, not achieving very much. It's an odd state of limbo, there is so much construction work that could be done now and painting but when I get set to start I think about all the wiring that needs to be run and plumbing and so on that it wouldn't be worth painting now when all this work is going to scratch and ding it up anyway, might as well wait.
So we head to the boat, leave it docked up so the kids can run around and get used to just being on it, just the small wake from passing boats coming into the marina make the boat go up and down (the wiggles the kids are calling it) and that sends them in to fits of crying as it is. Mac does enjoy being the Swabbie.
More leaky hatches, we have resealed all the hatches and windows except for two and of course those two leak the worst so more sealing. It's just time consuming, taking off the hatch and scraping off all the old silicone and then put epoxy on the exposed wood and new silicone then reattach it.
Feels like winter has arrived here. It was very chilly on the boat and we have no heat as of yet, the stove is on order so we had a small electric heater plugged directly in to the shore power through an extension cord since there is no inverter or plugs on the boat yet, so it's heat or lights right not both.
Penelope sitting by the small heater watching the kids run around on deck through the hatch.
This is a project I could work on now. I took out the propane stove that was on the boat already and it needs to be cleaned up and repainted, we'll see if I can get it looking goo again.
Today was Canadian Thanksgiving and since we are in the states right now it was hard to come by a turkey so we got two chickens to roast instead. There are a lot of pumpkins now though, I have three of them right there.
Marks parents flew in this morning from Halifax, NS, they will be staying with us for two weeks. We are very excited to show them the boat, we are hoping to put Marks Dad to work while he's here, gotta take fee labour where you can get it.
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