Is It May or November ?

The boat has been in her slip for just about a month, and what a crazy month it has been.....as least weather wise.

The winds have been constant this month, and at times gusts reached over 65MPH.....crazy, just crazy. Mother's Day had sustained winds of 50MPH!!
We haven't accomplished much this month as it has been almost impossible to even get steady footing, let alone any work done. The boat and the docks have done nothing but shake, rattle and roll. It almost feels like November instead of May. Nightime temps have been in the low 40's and daytime temps rarely broke 70, but the winds have not died down. If anything was accomplished, it was the fact that we know our lines and cleats will hold this boat securely to the dock. They have really been put to the test this past month. At one point we thought they'd fail, but we were wrong. We did learn that there is no such thing as too many lines, or lines that are too thick or heavy. We needed all the help we could get from them, and they pulled through.

The marina's location just seems to be prime for north, northwest winds that come barreling down the bay and whip around the point and hit us broadside. The problem this past month was that the winds were coming from all directions, and were changing hourly instead of daily. Whitecaps were showing their nasty little heads whether the wind was coming from the north, south east or west, or any combo of direction.

Hopefully June will be a quieter month, and the winds will lie down for the summer, and the temps will rise to normal.

A New Addition To Our Family

Dottie and I have been known to do things on a whim.....and we pulled it off again this past weekend.
After enjoying a nice breakfast at Cooper's Cafe on Sodus Point, we were driving back to Oak Park Marina, when out of the corner of her eye, Dottie noticed this boat for sale at Arney's Marina.
We stopped and checked it all out, and Dottie really liked it. We needed a smaller boat to scoot around the bay and this would be ideal.

It is really too much trouble to take out the Lucky Find III just to cross the bay to have lunch, a cocktail or dinner, so this would be ideal for that purpose. Also, it would "fit the bill" as the boat to take to join our friends at the local sandbar!
Dottie gave it a once going over, and we decided to purchase it. Buying a smaller boat is so much simpler than buying a boat over 30 feet long.

I made an offer to the salesperson, and within minutes we were sitting down forking over a deposit and signing the necessary registration papers.

We could pick up the boat the following Friday and have it in time for the Memorial Day weekend, which suited us just fine.

Hopefully this boat will be a Lucky Find also, although, we will probably give her a different name.