Tuesday, September 14, 2010

Preview...

No, not for a movie. Yesterday was another "blue shirt" day... we pulled another power boat and two canoes. I winterized the motor, tagged it, and put it away. Then walked all the docks to get an "inventory" of open slips. The big project for the day was the start of pulling floats on the mooring field: we replace the mooring floats with hard foam crabpot floats that will better withstand the ice that is coming. It is physical work - you go out with our skiff, lift the mooring float and chain into the boat, disconnect the float, then tie the crabpot float onto the chain before putting it back in the water. Then back to the docks where the big floats are carried up the shop and scrubbed before putting them away. One young dockhand and I made it through about 25% of the mooring field.

I feel it this morning.

There is plenty more of this to come.

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