[Public-List] Spring at last...

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Man, you had me seriously worried there, Gord.
The worst case of PTSD I have ever witnessed. 
OK gang - I want to see some creative extrapolation of that acronym.   And remember, this is Gord we are describing here........
Pouting Tiller Sailor Delirium?
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Cheers ,   Rod Tuesday, 14 April 2020, 08:10p.m. -04:00 from Greg Aldworth via Public-List  public-list at lists.alberg30.org :

>Glad you woke up, I was going to call and make certain all was well. Trying times and all. Enjoyed that though.
>Greg
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>From: Gordon Laco via Public-List
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>Subject: [Public-List] Spring at last...
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>Hello friends,
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>So spring came at last… after a few false starts SURPRISE’s winter cover came off, and Neptune or Posiedon or whatever sent a little rain to wash the winter’s accumulation of dust off the decks.  Oh what a pleasure it was to give the cockpit coamings a light sanding followed by a coat of varnish… The companionway washboards looked good but they got there spring recoat as well. 
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>Looking at the mast, i replaced the jib halyard block and moused its shackle with seizing wire.  I’d forgotten to replace the bulb in the masthead light with an LED, but a few minutes attention and that was done too. 
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>Here in Georgian Bay we only need to do anti-fouling paint every second year, so a quick touch up around the waterline and in way of the prop’s slipstream and that job was done. 
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>The re-wiring job turned out to be incredibly easy to do, and completely without surprises, practically doing itself while I sipped a beer watching the tools fly about.
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>The birds chirped merrily ‘chirrup… chirrup…  chirrup’ and I saw happy squirrels frolicking, playing volley ball with an acorn.   Looking out on the bay from SURPRISE’s deck, I could see Canada Geese swimming in pairs chatting with pairs of mallard ducks, and a cheerfully chubby beaver wearing a construction worker’s hard hat swam by towing a little barge full of building materials. 
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>Suzy Quattro, her bass electric guitar pushed over onto her back, wearing black leather jeans and a white silk blouse appeared in the cockpit along with Stevie Nicks in her ‘Rhiannon’ outfit… they’d heard I was a great sailor and really wanted to meet me…their eyes blazed with admiration.    Right behind them came Anne Wilson from Heart, wearing her ‘Crazy on you’ outfit.  Huh, I thought, all of them at once?  Weird, but what the hell.
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>POP!  I woke up on the couch from a nap.  I haven’t seen the boat for ages except for a quick visit to the marina (with special permission) to check her tarp in the storm… no work has been done, nor can be done, due to the pandemic shut down.
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>Alas alas alas...
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>Gord Laco
>#426 Surprise
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