The Beginning of the Spring Ritual

This past weekend was a good time to start "cleaning house" and getting the boat in order for a timely spring 2009 launch.
Weather was warmer but overcast. On Friday (March 6th) I was able to get the engine room and bilge cleaned out. The prior owner was a bit of a "packrat", and saved just about everything he ever replaced on the boat, including an old macerator pump, a seized fresh water pump and numerous empty boxes, hoses, etc. They are all gone now.
Saturday was a day spent just cleaning the salon, galley and guest stateroom. (Dottie was in Syracuse visiting our daughter Karen and grandson Mitchell).

I ventured to the marina to wash floors and walls and dust & vacumn.
While doing so, I managed to get a CD disc stuck in the radio, and cannot get it out. So, I am now in the market to replace that radio.
Sunday, I was visited by my marina friend, John Finnigan. He wanted to check on his boat and do a few things. We went to lunch at Captain Jack's in Sodus Point, Dottie met us there, and then back to the boat with him to just hang out and talk.
Finished up some odds and ends, got some great advice from John, and went home.

All in all it was a productive weekend, and if the weather cooperates, maybe we can get the shrinkwrap off within the next 2 weeks.

It feels good just to be aboard the Lucky Find III, although on the hard, and getting things ready to go. It has been a long, cold winter.