It's Errand Day! PO box checked, gas tank filled, various and sundry items taken to storage, grocery store raided for our supply of instant mashed potatoes and a couple other necessities, trash from the car & the boat tossed, and now I'm debating whether or not to prep chicken salad for lunch tomorrow so it's nice and cold. It's probably going to happen.
Updates! Strictly Sail Boat Convention was this weekend and all the yacht clubs were out promoting. Our friend Anita is a member of Encinal Yacht Club and she invited us to take a tour of it Sunday morning when we ran into her and so we went to take a look. It's right up the street from our gate and it's amazing! It's got a pool, sauna, beautiful bar and dinning room, event rooms, monthly racing and cruising events that the members help organize, and unlike most of the yacht clubs around here, we don't have to spend a certain amount of money there over our monthly dues at the bar or for the brunches and dinners, so that's cool. And in honor of Strictly Sail, they're waiving the usual initiation fee if we signed up this weekend. So we did! They're meeting Thursday to discuss all the new applicants so we should know and be official by Friday. We stayed for the pasta dinner as Anita's guests, which is so fun if you've never been to one. They have a salad bar station and then the pasta station, where you pick everything you want and hand it to the chef who cooks it up and you choose what sauce and pasta you want it with. One of Kris's coworkers is actually a member too so it was good to meet him and it's nice to know that we know someone in the group! It was so much fun and we met a few more of our neighbors, and we think it's going to be awesome to really be a part of the sailing community up here and to get to help out with the activities. You can even reserve the club to have your own private parties, so we may have to have to take advantage of that! Also, on our last minute trip to Strictly Sail, we got sailing gloves, ordered a life jacket for Chloe, and drooled over all the pretty 35 and 50 foot shiny boats for sale.
We also figured out that our galley stove/oven actually works! We asked a neighbor about it since he has the same style stove he told us that his is in the same condition as ours was and to try it out! We went and got the fuel we needed to fill the canisters and tried it out. And we made quesadillas for dinner! I put the electric burner away yesterday and last night we tried both burners at the same time last night and it's so nice to be able to cook two things at the same time! We have yet to try out the oven but we'll have to figure out something to make for our first use. It's not huge, but I think I could fit in a 9x11 pan and that's more than we need. We now need to repair the stove-side slide on table leaf as a prep station. I may try re-configuing the outlets because everything's plugged into the power bar that hangs over the sink, which is serving as our liquor cabinet since we hadn't needed to USE the sink. Without the support-brace underneath it folded out, you slide it on and it literally just falls right off, which it's not supposed to do. Another project for the list! But we did figure out that our bilge pump was only clogged and not actually broken, so we took the replacement kit that we bought back to West Marine. We shifted a bunch of DVD's to a case and I took all the plastic ones to the storage space today, along with the clothes we traded out for the warm weather ones I grabbed the other day. We picked everything up off the floor, swept, mopped, shook out the floor rugs, figured out the trick to flushing the toilet when there's no back pressure...and more! All in all a productive weekend that we hadn't planned on having and it was awesome! Functioning on the boat day to day is really coming together and I'm so happy. Every time we re-organize and put supplies we're just going to make it better and better and once we get into our list of projects our boat is going to be stylie.
What are you looking to accomplish that's going to make your daily life better?
Happy Project Listing!
Enjoy,
Allie H.
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