Time slipping

It's been a moderately eventful weekend here as we realized, probably sometime Friday, that there is still quite an awful lot of stuff to do and not enough time to do it in before we depart for Port Townsend next week.

Friday was off to a bad start; we'd planned to work on the boat all day but I was called away early to deal with a problem for a client. When I got to the boat, the stove was out of service again and Mandy wasn't able to get the head bolted back together and things were a bit of a mess. Rather than working on the wiring that I had planned on, and getting ready to complete the radome installation, we ended up working on everything else that had gotten out of order.

Saturday, when we had planned to finish the radome, there were thundershowers in the forecast, and I wasn't putting anyone up the mast with the possibility of lightning around. Then, Mandy started feeling sick, so I went by myself and did the wiring, at least.

Today we went shopping and got most of the hardware purchases out of the way. Monday is likely going to be devoted to work. Tuesday we have to take the boat as far as Shilshole, so we can get a 6AM start and catch a favorable ebb up the Sound. The forecast, at least, has turned in our favor (sort of): from a relatively benign forecast of sun and north winds, a low is supposed to be coming up from Oregon. While this may bring in more rain and bluster than we would have liked, it will also provide a nice brisk tailwind, which will be a lot faster for us than beating up the Strait, and much less likely to raise the sort of rough seas in the Inlet that a north/northwest wind often does on the ebb.

I doubt at this point we'll get the radar working before we go to Port Townsend, but we will have some more hands available up there which might make it go faster anyway. There are a host of other small tasks which I also hope to leverage our workforce on next weekend beyond just painting, since after that we'll be in Seattle and the boat in Port Townsend and there will be no further opportunity to tinker on it for an afternoon.

And although Mandy has to work Tuesday night, I'll have the day to work on it out at Shilshole; I planned to use the opportunity, with the engine warmed up, to change the impeller, the transmission fluid, and the zincs, but that shouldn't take all day so I can get a few other things crossed off the list as well.

On the whole, however, I'm feeling very poorly prepared to make the move. I'm hoping that week or two without the boat around will make it easier to get the rest of life in order to be gone for a couple of months.