Wednesday, November 17, 2010

Not in the water yet : (

We decided to take advantage of having the boat in the work yard.  We got the bottom sanded and painted, new zincs on, we sanded our rub rails and put several coats of bristol finish on, we have been wanting to do this for a while!  Its much easier to do the rails on the hard instead of floating from the dinghy!  Got the main sail up, the doger and bimini. The yard moved the stands so Brian can sand and paint under them and he will put one more coat of bristol on the rub rails.  I got the bright work done, fridge and freezer working and lots of cleaning inside. Shes a happy girl!!!  Today we will work on finishing the bottom where the jack stands were, finish the rub rail, put out dock lines and bumpers and get her ready for tommorrow morning launch into the water!!!  Since we've been here we have met some really nice people also working on their boats.  This is a busy place lots of excited sailors getting ready to set sail for the season. Last night we went to the Roy Orbishark Show!!  What a hoot, its a puppet show that features Roy Obrisons songs, with guest stars appearing, such as Tina Tuna, Eelvis, StingRay Charles!!!  The 1st taping 114th runnning!!  It was great, the setting equally as great, JJs.  JJs is quaint outside type setting nothing fancy, plastic tables and chairs, dirt floor and a outhouse with tile floors and a light in it, lol.  The stage lights were two flashlights help by a couple of guys, in between acts, a guest would stand on his chair and pull the string to turn on the over head light!!  When the act was ready to start again, the guest would get back up and turn the light back off, then the flash lights came on again, lol!!  The back of the waiters shirts say Have a Nice Day and the picture is a hand flipping you off.  The best tacos I've had yet!!  You dont get a bill, you just tell the owner what ya had and he figures what the total was, a sort of honor system.  As we walked up to pay, the owner says, "thanks for coming have a nice night", we told him we havent paid yet, he says "Oh, what'd ya have?"  then gave us our total and said, "Almost free"  Great place lots of fun!!  Sorry no pictures I forgot to bring my camera with : (
We have made serveral trips to town on our bicycles for supplies.  The weather has been really nice, hot during the day and suprisingly cool at night.  We will send picutures and try to keep you updated as often as we can.  Miss everyone and will try to figure out how to comment back, so far I cant seem to do it without making a new post.  Krista if you read this send me  your email, we have miss placed it : (  Doug, Carla, Ana and Steve we are going to try to make to La Paz for the Christmas party!!  Bye for now........

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  1. Sounds like you guys are getting Rainshadow shipshape - good time to do it. Almost ready to sail again. Glad to hear that you are having some fun too! Hope to see you in La Paz!

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