Day 24: untitled

For a brief moment today, Cyrus was the captain of our dingy- "Chompy."  He learned to use the throttle and steer- which he took to quite happily.  For now, he is content with going a pretty slow speed... But he is a male Walton- so I will enjoy his caution while it lasts.

Boat fixing continues: install a battery charger, change a seacock, start to clean the bilge-blech!, trace out the shower sump pump... Hmmm.. I thought we SOLD our house.

The wind was fairly strong as well- which brings me to a point about living aboard a boat- about 1/2 of what you do all day is planned and the other 1/2 is reaction to what is going on immediately.  I will illustrate, (at 4:30 after a day's work) "Hey- what's that constant awful banging noise? Oh- that's coming from the lines smacking the mast.... We should probably fix that.."