[Public-List] Spring at last...

[Gordon Laco]

I guess it was an age test….


Gordon Laco
#426 Surprise




> On Apr 15, 2020, at 7:55 AM, Michael via Public-List <public-list at lists.alberg30.org> wrote:
> 
> I don't know what is worse, that you are capable of working Rock and Roll Divas into a sailing dream, or that I recognized and understood every one of them.
> 
> MichaelGrosh
> #220
> Debbie Harry and Joan Jett and you"d be crewed up...
> 
> ------ Original Message ------
> From: "Gordon Laco via Public-List" <public-list at lists.alberg30.org>
> To: "Alberg 30 Public List -- open to all" <public-list at lists.alberg30.org>
> Cc: "Gordon Laco" <mainstay at csolve.net>
> Sent: 4/14/2020 7:09:19 PM
> Subject: [Public-List] Spring at last...
> 
>> Hello friends,
>> 
>> 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.
>> 
>> 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.
>> 
>> 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.
>> 
>> 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.
>> 
>> 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.
>> 
>> 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.
>> 
>> 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.
>> 
>> Alas alas alas...
>> 
>> Gord Laco
>> #426 Surprise
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