throwing our hat over the wall

The saying - with a dash of rephrasing - goes a little like so: "If you need to get over a wall you can't get over, throw your hat over the wall." Once your best hat is lying on the other side of the wall, your ass will find a way over to go get it.

Christy just walked up to the marina office and resigned our comfy, safe, shore-powered south-facing slip in Shilshole. After May, we have no place to park Hello World so we're leaving whether we're ready or not. Our hat is now officially lying on the other side of the wall.

We're gonna go get it.

now hiring

We are looking for crew with two qualifications:

1.) Good with tools.

2.) Are currently an Oompa Loompa.

checking the zincs and paint

We put zincs on in September which means it's been about six months and time to think about replacing them. Given the amount of people that pump their toilets overboard into the marina coupled with the 45° water and Christy's reluctance to jump in and check them, I decided to just take a video of the bottom and see how it's doing.

We just bought a new Flip Ultra video camera for $85 and spent another $35 on a waterproof case. Here's the results:



Not too bad but we'll need to replace those zincs before we leave.

Man, is Christy gonna be cold doing that.

craigslist comes through again

We've been on a hunt for an Avon RIB dinghy without having to drop $3,000. In fact, $800 was more to our liking. Once again, Craigslist delivered. We found a 1997 Avon 2.81 Rover fiberglass hull RIB right smack in our price range. We'll be putting up our wood floor dinghy on said Craigslist as soon as we get it shined up a bit.

Christy's sister, McKenzie, decided we should name our dinghy Most Ridiculous Plan in the Room from this story here.

Internet, meet our dinghy: Most Ridiculous Plan in the Room.

be careful what you wish for

me: Unemployed!! Woohoo! I wanna start my retirement hungover, man. Let's get after it!

christy: Ok. (hehehe)

[the next morning]

me: holy hell.