after glenn helped us get out sailboat out of the water, we helped him get his out.
this was Tuesday, October 30th – we all drove over to the yacht club in kevin’s big truck and attached glenn’s trailer. glenn climbed aboard, and I was excited to get to go out one last time for the year. it was a beautiful morning.
the little sailboat motor started up and glenn and I set off, as kevin drove to the sailboat launch over on our side of the lake. we’d have to motor under the Linsday bridge, and glenn had never taken his sailboat under the bridge since he can’t sail under it, so it would be a first.
or maybe not. I happily enjoyed sitting there taking pictures of the beautiful, crisp fall day. i’m pretty sure we only had about three fall days, mostly going right from summer heat to snow.
but then…the motor died. uh oh. glenn is generally cool as a cucumber, but I think he started to panic, maybe, as he frantically kept pulling on the motor rope. it started up a couple of times but then died.
I finally called kevin, who suggested we call our boat guy, josh. I did, and glenn described to him the motor trouble and josh said it must be the carburetor, which meant it wasn’t going to work. hmm. glenn called the yacht club and I thought that maybe they’d have somebody there who could help us? it seems they should, since the membership is so expensive. but no, the yacht club just called CWLP for us, which I could have done myself.
meanwhile, kevin texted me, writing “why doesn’t he unfurl the jib a little?” the jib is the smaller mast in the front. it was a windy day, and the wind was already nudging us in the direction of the dock where we needed to be, so this made sense to me.
but glenn is a very, very focused individual and I think he was only concentrating on MAKE THE MOTOR START, so he just kept pulling on the cord.
eventually he somehow managed to start it and we puttered over to the dock, but we met kevin at the dock on the other side of the lake so we wouldn’t have to try to navigate under the bridge.
land ho! kevin was all set to get the boat up on the trailer.
this is a funny photo because I think glenn looks smug, but I know that’s not his emotion – I think it was mostly just relief.
I had to stop taking pictures for a bit because all hands were needed – glenn held onto the boat in the back and I had to pull, while kevin tried to guide it in.
that went ok, and then kevin magically balanced on top of the trailer not getting his feet wet as he winched the boat up.
this is my favorite photo of kevin even though I didin’t zoom in enough – he’s braced against the bar as he finishes hooking the boat up. very agile, my kevin.
glenn watched to make sure the boat wasn’t scraping the ramp as kevin pulled it out of the water.
I stood around in the parking lot for a good long time as kevin and glenn prepped the boat for hauling.
so hard at work! I was perfectly content to continue standing around.
as they worked, a truck pulling a boat pulled up and I saw a little dog in the front seat. it joyfully bounded all over the place as its owner got ready to take his fishing boat out.
I guess I had to help a little, because the next thing I knew, the boat with the dog standing proud at the bow was whizzing by.
a little more this and that, and the boat was ready to go back to our house. they needed to take the motor off the boat before they took it to storage, but the motor was locked to the boat. glenn had a little baggie of keys, but none of them fit, so they had to stop at home in order to cut off the lock. and to drop me off. the final boat adventure of the year.
when we got back I took les for a walk, but after he sat on the rocks for alittle while he started meowing up at me, so it was a short walk.
riley, doing a yoga pose.
and boom, end of October posted, and it’s not even the end of November yet!
in addition to the first snow, we then had about four inches of snow the night before last. ridiculous.
ok then,
mrs. deep in the hear of winter before thanksgiving hughes.