We are preparing for our 2021 trip south. We have received our vaccinations and will stay in Florida again this year hoping to visit with family and friends who will have been vaccinated as well.
2020! We all say "ugh"!
Our 2020 trip was cut short and though we had hoped to take several trips around the SC coast in the fall, Summer Breeze left the dock only once. There was plenty to do on her besides whatever Bruce does in the ER (engine room).
Rosie and fellow artists were busy keeping the gallery open which we are happy to say survived Covid.
Isinglass and bimini top cleaning and repair.
Since we live in a hurricane zone we decided to be proactive and take the bimini and isinglass down before the storm season, cleaning them and putting them away ready to hang again. And of course, no storm in 2020! If that guarantees no major storms we will gladly do that yearly.
We washed and polished the isinglass hanging them on the dock to dry before storing away.
The bimini always needs repair. It is not that old but the thread that was used is not holding up to the sun. We have spot stitched many places but this time we double stitched ALL the seams.
Then there is the teak work...again. Discovering that we did not do it "correctly" before, this time we took it down to bare wood and started anew. It looks beautiful.
Dinghy repairs
While in FL last spring, we managed to get some tears in the dinghy from barnacles at a dock. Luckily we had some emergency repair material from the previous owner on board which saved us. We got back to Summer Breeze with one side totally deflated! Our patch held during our travel but we were still losing air so last summer we took her in for repair and they found several other small tears that were about to be real trouble. Jasmine is all patched up now and is holding all her air again!
We had been having trouble with the dinghy motor on every trip even after having the carburetors rebuilt several times so Captain said "enough".
He traded it in for a brand new Yamaha 15HP 4 Stroke. We took the dink out several times around the Toogoodoo breaking the motor in and checking it out. She is ready now for some coastal exploring!
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