Renewing my vows – 2010

Well, as you can see it is already spring of 2010.  I was a bad blogger last year.   So much for vowing to take more photos!

The story is that the weather in 2009 was terrible.  I didn’t get Dragonfly into the water until almost the middle of summer, and then managed to get only four or five sailing trips in before hauling out in October.  Meanwhile, I have been crewing on a J/24 in Newport every week so I do take care of the sailing itch, but it makes taking Dragonfly out seem a little less pressing.

One casualty of this attitude occurred last fall, when I rowed out after several storms to find rainwater in the cabin – two inches above the cabin floor!  I have always tried to be good about going down the boat to pump out the bilge after getting rain, but I clearly got a little lazy.

Well, I’ll try to be a better boater this year.  The spring maintenance has begun!  This year’s projects are:

• Apply Cetal to all exterior wood trim
• Two (2) decent coats of anti-fouling to the hull
• Re-caulk all fittings on port side.

And I really, really do vow to take more pictures!