September 16th, 2013

Hey! Where'd Summer Go?!!?

Saddle seats/lockers built onto the original

I'm afraid Sterling Hayden may be right: the years DO thunder by! Despite our plans and hopes and good intentions, a third summer has passed without getting the masts on Moontide. However, our time spent on the boat has been fruitful. We rebuilt, glassed and epoxied both cabin sides and decks, tore out the rot from the cockpit, clear back to the transom, and have almost completed rebuilding the whole rear of the boat. (See the Restoration Section of our site)
Weather was accommodating, to say the least. We cannot remember a sunnier summer in Oregon! 
And it was not all work -- we took a break and spent three wonderful days in Pt Townsend at the Wooden Boat Festival, looking at other people's boat projects and accomplishments.

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Gabrielle admiring the view from our room in the Old Consulate Inn @ PTWBF 2013

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One of the amazing things we discovered was how small the boating community really is.
People who have travelled all over the world, still run into each other at boating events.

Michael, imagining taking the wheel and sailing the schooner Suva, PTWBF 2013

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There were boat builders, designers, sailors, would-be sailors, carpenters and dreamers at the show. We ran into an assortment of folks we knew: friends from Oregon, people we'd met at various other boat shows from years before, and even two couples we knew from cruising down the coast of Mexico. It was a fun getaway, a nice respite, and we saw some amazing boats.
We returned, rejuvenated, and pleased with the progress our little Moonie is making.
Be Well,
M&G

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