New Memorial Day Plans

We are changing plans again. We had planned to get away Memorial Day weekend to anchor at Dutch Harbor near Jamestown, RI, but changes to work travel requirements prodded us to rethink this. I was already scheduled to be in Pittsburgh the week before the holiday weekend, and now I also need to be there the week after. We will use this as an opportunity to visit family, by driving to Pittsburgh, spending the holiday weekend at my mothers on the way and then visiting our children and their families in Ohio at the end of the following week.

We took delivery of the dinghy and outboard and got them registered already. The 15 hp outboard is a handful at 113 lbs. We are adding a lifting crane as using a spare halyard like with did with our 5 hp Mercury just will not work without someone getting hurt or losing the motor. We also had our holding tank system inspected. This is a new requirement in Rhode Island. Linda made good progress scrapping the old finish off the teak after we picked up some new blades.