Another boat

Kerm here,

We did buy a boat for the cabin.  It is a used but well taken care of 14' Lund with a trailer, a 15 hp Evenrude outboard and it also came with a boat lift.  We launched it in town yesterday and I took it back to the cabin for fishing expedition outfitting.  In the afternoon Chis and I took it out for a try a and after a bit caught a couple of nice northern pike that were just under 24".  The slot limit up here is that you can keep 3 per person up to 24" and must throw back up to 36" and then keep only one over 36".  My experience is that anything over 36" probably is not the greatest eating so we'll take 23 1/2's all day.

We threw both back.  The object of this trip was to test the boat out, have a pleasant afternoon together and not go out for meat.  That comes later.  Storms are predicted for today so Monday looks like our target day..

Books.  We need books.  Lot's of books.  Not that we would use it much but the TV satellite stuff up here is out of date so it doesn't work and the radio reception is very bad.  The only thing that comes in half decent is public radio and I can only handle some much of that in a day.  One of the nice things about cruising on the Belle is that nearly all marinas have book exchanges so we keep our shelves stocked with plenty of great reading material.  Right now we have 2 National Geograghics from 2008 and a dozen cook books. The next free day we will be going to Cook or Virginia looking for 2nd hand stores to stock up. 

We continue to work a little of this and that but it appears that the major work is all but done.  The roof and gutters have been cleaned but Chris still wants to go up there with moss killer to finish it up.  The deck looks like hell as the finish that dad put on there a few years ago is peeling.  Chris's latest plan is to scrape and sand the old finish off and let the deck go grey.  Perhaps do just a few boards per day. 

Breakfast.  I'm hungry.