Day 335, Friday May 23

Day 335, Friday May 23

Continued sanding, had some electrical mystery that Dawson worked on in the morning.  Stained the eyebrows, which is the teak edging on the deck (kind of like crown moulding in a house).  Dawson sanded and stained the bow sprit.

Stuff packed in Laura and Brad's garage

The boat is cluttered again.  It does not take much to make such a small space a mess.  Everything has been pulled out and no longer has a home so it is challenging to remember where stuff has been put.  Similar to when we moved on to the boat.

By 3:00 we had completed the work we had planned for the day and were heading to Arlington just west of Washington D.C.  A friend of Dawson’s from university is in Arlington for the weekend having driven down from Toronto with his girlfriend Teresa who is an avid Albacore racing sailor.  They are taking part in an Albacore regatta this weekend which is about an hour from where we are docked, so it seemed a great idea to meet up and catch up.  We were joined by Barney and Lee who are hosting Mike and Teresa as well as 2 other captains and their crew who are in town for the great Albacore regatta.  An albacore is a dinghy sailboat that was originally made in the UK.

We get to Arlington shortly after 4:00, find the restaurant we are meeting at 7:00 and wonder what should we do for 3 hours.  We look on trip advisor for some suggestions, but nothing seems to fit the time slot that would not get us caught up in Washington DC rush hour, so we decide to head over to the mall at Falls Church a few miles away and pick up some odds and ends we need to put the boat to bed.  While killing our 3 hours we get the first draft of our boat listing and it is all wrong, well lots of errors in it.  We are frustrated as we had provided a detailed listing and had the broker to the boat for a tour.  We sit in the van and start listing the corrections needed, but run out of time.  We will have to draft a correcting email later.

Soon enough we were heading back to Arlington and meet up with Mike, Teresa at an Italian restaurant.  We have a lovely evening complete with lots of laughs, and are heading back to the mothership by 11:00.  We could have stayed the night in Arlington, however the hour long drive beckoned us back to our nest.  On the way back we made 2 wrong turns.  Driving the highways here is interesting.   There are numerous highways going in all directions and with sweeping cloverleafs on all of them, interconnecting the web.  So by missing 1 of our turnoffs, we then did a square, encompassing backtkracking and doing 4 cloverleafs to correct ourselves. 

We must have been tired by the time we are back in Crownsville as we even drive past the home we are docked at and we were both looking for it.  It is a neat little neighbourhood on a narrow peninsula, with lots of trees and a very narrow, winding road.

Once home, we draft an email to the broker and there is a list of 25 changes to the listing.  Dawson falls asleep and Julie sends it along, only to find out that she quoted a couple things wrong too, so now we have errors on errors contrary to the listing document Dawson painstakingly put together over the last weeks.  Oh well, fix that tomorrow.

Cheers

Julie and Dawson