Breeze On

Last year I was asked to participate on a committee to plan the 30th anniversary celebration of our local YMCA. George and I go to the Y to exercise three times a week when we are in town. I felt obligated to help but planning any kind of event is definitely not one of my skills. I ended up being only peripherally involved. During one meeting, while we were discussing potential auction items, I had the idea that we could offer a day sail on Breeze On. I texted George to ask if he would be okay with that and he agreed. The CEO of the Y loved the idea and said it should be a live auction item instead of silent auction. The night of the event I was really nervous that no one would bid. The bidding was lively and a friend of mine, Cheryl, had the winning bid. This past Sunday we took Cheryl, her daughter Carey, and grandchildren, Leila and Graham out for an afternoon of sailing on Breeze On. It was a beautiful, but cool day. We had a lovely time. The entire family is delightful. George a...

Breeze On was put into the water last week and we went for our first sail of the season on Saturday. We had to wait weeks for the weather to cooperate so that George could apply a few coats of bottom paint. While he was waiting for the weather to improve he changed the zincs; cleaned the propeller; put a protective coat of paint on the propeller; polished the hull; recaulked the joint between the toe rail and the hull; repaired a small ding in the rudder; and built a railing for our finger pier at the condo. Cleaned propeller Propeller with anti fouling paint Ding in rudder. We think it happened in our slip during a very low tide. Rudder patched with West System. Old caulking. When Jimmy at Generation III launches our boat he usually does it himself and puts the boat in her slip by using a push boat. Last week he called us to come down to help because the push boat was in the shop. I was a bit nervous about driving the boat out of the launch area because it is really narrow and we had...