Sunday - 16 September 2018

Sunday morning is clearly a prime time for promenading.  The walkway behind the beach was extremely busy while we were running, and it made it difficult to fall into a rhythm. Every few steps you had to slow or divert around families meandering along. Even so, we managed the longest run of our summer, helped by the fact that the temperature was a bit lower, and we had made a prompt start to get it done before the heat of the day set in.

I was able to enjoy the sight of the 16 fenders that I cleaned yesterday, sparkling along the side of the boat, they have not been so clean since they were new.  Today we spent another day of work in preparation for leaving the boat. We have had the floorboards up, cleaning the bilges and servicing a couple of the pumps that lurk below the deck. The outside decks have been cleaned again, and the spray hood has been packed away. We have started to sort out a pile of things that need to be taken home with us.  Every time we think that the job list is getting shorter, a number of new items occur to us, and the list grows again.

We have had a remarkably trouble-free season for mechanical issues, but even so, the intensive use of the boat means that items start to misbehave by the end of the year.  We now have a couple of these things, nothing insurmountable, but the maintenance period has come at the right time.

Distance covered today	0	nautical miles
Trip distance covered	1616	nautical miles
Distance covered 2018	2336	nautical miles
Steve (and Tricia)