Day 315, Saturday May 3rd, a great day to be in
Beaufort!
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| Boat building competition |
Dawson heads out for his morning run into town, as a
recognizance mission. He comes back with
a full report of where everything is etc.
By 10:00 Julie has got herself in gear and the 2 of us head in to
downtown to catch the farmers market, Nautical Museum, and the start of boat
building competition. It is a beautiful
day to wander the quaint town. The
farmers market is small and we are trying to eat down our inventory so no
purchases are made. The nautical museum
is excellent. There is a special exhibit
related to the wooden boat show that is on.
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| More boat building competition |
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| Beautiful canoe made out of 50,000 year old tree trunk |
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| Julie and shaggy dog |
After checking out the start of the boat building
competition where there are 14 teams of 2 that are given plans and lumber
supplies and 4 hours to build a boat that they will then launch and race
against each other, we head to lunch at Sprouters.
Lunch is good but near the end of it Julie spots something
floating in the water. It gets closer
and closer and we look through our big camera lense and decide that it is a
horse carcass bobbing along. Luckily we
are done lunch as it is getting closer and as we leave we hear a comment about
an odor.
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| Carcass floating |
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| Dawson in front of the "Boat shed" |
We head back to the boat building to see how things are
progressing. It all looks good as they
rush around cutting and glueing and siliconing seams. We head out to the wooden boat displays where
there are absolutely beautiful old boats and new boats all made out of
wood.
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| Julie learning how to put models in a bottle |
It is now time to go see the racing of the boats which have
just been built. We have been told the
race iw quite entertaining and sure enough it is. Heats of 3 boats at a time have to row out to
a line and back again. Some people don’t
seem to know how to row very well, others lose there oar locks or they break so
end up moving their boats like standup paddleboarders. As they race you can see some boats starting
to take on water and wallow. Overall
there were 2 boats that sank completely and a few that looked like bathtubs but
made their circuit. All in all some good
clean fun to spectate.
It is now early evening so we head back to the boat for
dinner and a quiet night.
Cheers
Julie and Dawson
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