SVCharm: July 2025

The dodger project was completed this week. Lots of work, did a bit of restitching, and replaced the port forward Strataglass. It probably was not required, as you can still see out of them well, but it is a bit hazy, and since we had spare material, we went ahead and replaced it.

Hard to tell, but the port side is slightly clearer than the starboard side

It has been a lazy week. We did go out for Mexican food again on Tuesday. We did a couple more trips to get groceries. We do a bit of grocery shopping here, as the store is very convenient, and sales change on Fridays so we shop every week to get sale items, and stock up on bulky items that are a pain to carry a mile or more, which we have to do at most places where the grocery store isn’t so close.

Nice little park right by the dinghy dock.

We had put a new helm seat in when we were in Florida. We like it, but we could not get it far enough back from the wheel to stand comfortably between the wheel and seat. This week, Kris was lounging near the helm, reading her book, when she looked up and had a “duh” moment. If we simply turned the base of the seat 180 degrees, we could move it back. It was a boat project, though, which means the screws holding the plate to the seat would not all come out. Which meant drilling one out. Which meant a trip to the hardware store to buy different bolts. Living on a boat turns a 10-minute job to a 4-hour job quite easily.

Dean spent some time in the dinghy going around and cleaning the hull, which was green and slimy. He did not want to swim and do it, and good thing, as the water isn't real clear, but when he cleaned from the dinghy, the brush came back from wiping the hull loaded with little skeleton shrimps (we think). Yuck.

Friday was the 4^th. We made a special meal. Dean wanted hot dogs, and chips with dip. Kris wanted apple pie, so we made them all. Junk food woo-hoo.

Kris isn't eating meat, so she just had chips and pie.

We could see numerous fireworks shows from where we were. 4 of them fairly close, and about 6 further away. Too much to look at.

One of the closer shows

Saturday the 5^th was our 34^th wedding anniversary. No big celebration.

Blast from the past - sailing in the winter cold in the Puget Sound 34 years ago.

We went and checked out the local farmers market, which was quite small and disappointing. Then decided to stretch our legs, and we walked and wandered a bit in the residential area. Always interesting to see different homes and architecture. Checked on Zillow, and the cheapest home in the area we wandered was over $900,000, as it was a bit of a fixer-upper.