Monday afternoon Tom, Chris, Randy, and Jeannie came over for coffee and sticky buns. It was nice to have guests on our boat for a change. The guys sat out in the cockpit, so there was plenty of room for everyone. For those of you who have not been on RONDO, six people in the cabin would be very crowded.
Tuesday, Jan 25, 2011
Tuesday morning on the radio net Tom announced to everyone that it was Bill’s birthday. He said that if you add up Bill’s age and that of his boat it totals 110. He didn’t want to give away Bill’s age, so he just told everyone that that boat was 50. The radio was busy in the morning with happy birthday wishes and invitations to the potluck birthday party on the beach for Bill and for Gail from STAR who has the same birthday.
When we were getting ready to go ashore Bill looked up and saw a dinghy drifting through the harbor so he jumped in our dinghy to go rescue it. A dinghy adrift seems to travel at about twice the speed it normally travels. He caught up with it, but the wandering dinghy was a heavy whaler and was quite content to go its own way. It was a bit of a struggle for our small underpowered dinghy to convince the other one to follow along nicely and return to its boat.
We spent part of the morning collecting firewood for a bonfire on the beach. While we were on a trail looking for wood Bill and I met some people on a catamaran who will be going to Maine. We invited them to the party and hope to see them this summer. They had guests with them and we invited them too. One of the guests is from Belgium and is involved with a very cool restoration project of a steel boat that once belonged to a famous Belgian singer that was wrecked in New Zealand, brought back to Belgium, and is being restored. He was down here collecting photographs and information about the boat from the couple on the catamaran.
Bill had requested pie for his birthday instead of cake so I spent the afternoon baking. I made an apple pie, a key lime pie, and a cherry pie. Bob on STAR made a delicious chocolate cake for Gail. It seems like everyone else also spent the afternoon in the galley. The selection and quality of the food at the potluck was amazing. Kathleen from WINGS spent the afternoon pitting dates and restuffing them with almonds. Her son had brought the almonds and dates from Bahrain. Patty from LAST TANGO brought Bill’s favorite dessert, lemon squares. There was a huge selection of pastas, appetizers, breads, casseroles, and desserts. No one went away hungry.
After dinner we had a bonfire and Gail led everyone in a session of jokes. The jokes were varied from tame to very adult. The Belgian gentleman had some very funny jokes and was the hit of the party. Skip from RHAPSODY and Mike from ZERO TO CRUISING had some great jokes. A fun time was had by all.
Wednesday, Jan 26, 2011
The morning was spent doing errands, along with most of the other cruisers in the harbor. The propane truck has been fixed. Clarence, the driver, probably felt like a rock star he was so mobbed with people. While half the people were busy making Clarence feel popular the rest of us were at the laundry. The workers at the laundry were keeping a list to maintain order and discipline it was so busy. The TV at the laundry was on showing CNN and the snowy weather in the U.S. We were all pretty happy to be frittering away the day doing errands in the warm weather rather than dealing with the snow.
Tomorrow we are planning on heading to Long Island for most of a week with STAR and WALKABOUT so we filled up on water and diesel. This is quite a lot of effort as we have to bring everything to the boat in jerry cans in the dinghy. I hope this answers the question of “what do you do all day.”
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