We covered the upholstery on the Fly deck, last night, in anticipation of mucho precipitation, and sure enough, it bucketed down in the early hours (causing us to leap out of bed and close the bedroom windows) and we collected about a liter of rainwater through a hole in the connections on the Radar Arch with the Eisenglas. This isn't the only place that leaks, but the only one we really care about, coz it ruins the cushions on the dinette and pilot seat, there.
I went downstairs and brought back my middle sized Pyrex jug to scoop the fresh rainwater with....
...and gave the 'Garden' a drink of the pure stuff....
and LOOOOOKKK!!!! A TOMATO BABY!!! or SIX!!! YES!!!:)
Ok...I'm calm now!!!
These tomato plants were purchased because they supposedly only grow 12 inches tall. We don't have any stakes onboard, so lets hope they don't get any bigger than this! They have doubled their size in the past week. We bought them the day before we left Port Charlotte!
Ok..back to 'normal' programming!!!
Once the rain had fallen itself out and the wind blown itself out for a bit, we enjoyed our cup of Community Coffee (brand) in relative peace and quiet with no wind and calm waters. A very nice change from the rock and roll of the past two days. I find going to the loo, under such rocking conditions, a bit hazardous to ones health.
Waz and I compared thigh bruises, this morning...we are a pigeon pair..his on the left thigh, mine on the right!:)
Well, the wind found it's was back to us, and as we listened to the Marine Forecast this morning, while eating our scrambled eggs with chopped parsley on low carb/no sugar toast, and the waters responded, of course. We are now back to swinging around, which I guess one can put a positive 'spin' on...pun intended!!!:) in that the scenery changes every few minutes.
One thing we REALLY like about a good rain, after a few days of salt spray, is that we lazy boat people don't have to get out there and use precious clean water to wash the boat down. We are a little conservative when it comes to that, coz we anchor out more than we Marina, so our filling station is days apart.
We watched our new motor yacht neighbor arrive, last evening, and proceed to mop down his decks...we thought he might be a bit ambitious, considering the weather forecast...but he was out there this morning, again, mopping up from last night's rain. He had an open fly deck, so he couldn't really go anywhere before getting rid of the wet. They left just after 8am.
We are thinking to stay where we are for the moment....and I just spotted the pump-out fella at one of the other boats moored nearby! Yay!
We talked to Katie and Dean, yesterday afternoon. They are currently on the hard in Fort Pierce, somewhere, doing a 'Bottom Job', among other maintenance, for the next month. We were going to join them for a couple of days, on the hard, but have made the decision to keep going north, instead. When the time comes for us to sit for a longer period of time, we will take our baby out of the water and do her props and shafts then. Her bottom is clean...Mark the kiwi diver did that for us, and scraped the props and shaft, just before we left...remember?
Here comes our pump-out guy!!Waz is waiting by the access...
He had to come around the stern to get to the starb'd side, safely.
He is getting his fenders out (the big ones) right now, and Waz is tying him on. It is pretty choppy out there, so this is a bit challenging for a boat his size.
Well, it is time for me to get out there with a mop and bucket and use the remaining rain water to do some cleaning. The decks look like herd of buffalo have been trampling down them.
Tatafornow.
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