Update

Pork, Eggs, Rice, Beef, Blood and Yards
There are few things in the boating world to rival finding one’s freezer had not been energized for some time. While it is not the hottest part of the year, most boats will lose the grub in the freezer after a few days. The house battery banks will keep the unit working for about a week, give or take a few days, but when they are discharged, the cooling stops. Add to the equation about 30 pounds of pork, eggs, beef, rice and mayonnaise and that is the formula for something out of a science fiction movie. Let that stuff sort of cook in the hot cabin for about three days and moon suits are required to even approach the freezer.  I was the cause once by turning off the unit when we left the boat.  Now is the second time caused by yard master failing to keep his worker informed. This is just short of a hazmat situation. How can things so packed and so fresh turn into a puddle in the bottom of the freezer?  Good news is that the boat sits stern down thus the puddle is not flowing into the overboard pump sump.  Here comes another Clorox treatment like the one I had to do when I stored bait squid in the fridge for a week.  Not a good thing.

Misnomer with bent skeg and missing rudder

The last few days have been in the plus column because we were simply messing about boats. Yards are really cool places where one gets to see the mistakes of others. Why Knot, no doubt, brought comfort to others while the fellow aboard the black boat (Misnomer) I mentioned some time ago made our little event seem mild. He hired a rigger to take him out on Lake Pontchartrain for two days to teach him the ways. Seems they encountered some 60 kts of wind and had a bit less horsepower than needed to stay away from the bridge. They spent two days pinned against a bridge hammering their steel hull on the shore and the bridgeworks. Mind you, a fiberglass boat would not have survived, but the steel boat did, sans rudder, skeg, the main and mizzen masts, and all the lifeline stanchions to port. She is on the hard aft of Why Knot.

There was a nice couple that stopped by WK and asked what happened. I have found it easier to tell the brutal truth and they then admitted to a similar fate. They cut the corner at Algiers lock channel and hit the bottom with their two screws(propellers). This may be the only place in Louisiana with actual rocks. The failure to pay attention cost them a month on the hard and a cubic dump truck of funds. We both anticipate departure from the yard next Friday. Although they are sailors, they have purchased a power boat to do the Great Circle route from Mobile Bay back to Mobile Bay via Key West, the St. Lawrence Seaway, Great Lakes and down several rivers back to Mobile Bay.

 Random yard shots and WK's bow rail

Here are some pic from the yard. We will re-provision once aboard on Wednesday. Bear and I did something we have not done in four years: we dined at a Japanese restaurant, damn the calories.