Ready to leave

The trouble with leaving your “home” and going away for a few months is that you have to do a lot of work on everything and in the case of the Goose you also have to put a coat of varnish on everything that is exposed to the sun. Yesterday it was repair the deck, repair the wood step into the boat, remove and sew and fold up the forward sails (all in 90 deg + heat), and start to sand down all of the areas to be varnished. We have about 3 days of work to do before the goose will be ready to be pulled for the summer. We also have to remember that even here in Deltaville, over 50 miles from the ocean, a hurricane could come through and so we have to strip everything that could create extra windage off from the boat when we store her. So, off come the sails, unnecessary rigging, the spinnaker pole, the booms, and the side solar panels. I almost think that it would be easier to go back to the Great Lakes rather than strip the boat down for the season.