Pendant project

One of the nicer aspects of my impending retirement is the shift in mindset I get to experience. In the past I've probably been more likely to deal with pedants than pendants. Today was all about making sure the mooring pendant for Cupcake is well cared for.

In past years the mooring guys would set up both Cupcake’s mooring and Cyclops’s mooring whenever they got around to it, usually in April. That meant the mooring lines would sit in the water growing all sorts of nasty marine creatures for several months before being used to actually moor the boats.

So last year, knowing Cupcake wouldn’t be on her mooring until August, I made a contraption to keep her lines clean.

The lid got blown away last fall, so I made a new one today. Funny thing, the mooring guys only rigged the mooring for Cyclops. The one for Cupcake is not ready yet, so my work was in vain. (Cyclops’s lines are much too big to fit in the bucket on my float.)

Ellen and I also unwrapped Cyclops for the last time. No more snow and ice for us, but look at that sky…April in Maine is still plenty blustery!)

I installed the new (and now matching) blinds in the salon.

I did go into all the bilges to have a look. Everything looks pretty good but the engine room gave me a bit of a panic when I realized how much maintenance I need to complete before launch. None of that can really start until the boatyard reinstalls and connects the big batteries.