Come on Spring!!!

This morning Mike and I took a road trip up north to Sandusky to check on the Lady J, retrieve a few things and work on a project.  The weather was gorgeous today.  As my mother used to say "everything that rolls is out today".  We made it up to Sandusky shortly before lunch.  Luckily the snow had melted at least enough to get to the boat without having to climb over it.  We opened the hatch and were quickly reminded of all the things that are stowed on board when it's not in the water.

Had to climb over some things.

Our first project was to take down all the curtains in the salon.  Mike was able to get these down pretty quickly specially after we moved things out of the way.  So I gathered the curtains and all the "extra" pillows together and moved those out to the car.  I then took some measurements of the settee and the bench so that I could relay these to the folks at the Fabric Farm so they can begin making our new cushions.  Oh yeah by the way this was going to be our last "road trip" in the Honda.  The car goes back to the dealer on Friday.  We will then be down to the truck.  One step closer.

We were able to get electricity to the boat by accessing the outlet on the building next to us.  In doing so we were able to charge the batteries.  Since that would take a little while we decided to take a stroll down to the lake and then off to Berardi's for a bite of lunch.  Seeing the lake still frozen over is always a site to behold.  It's an eery view and to be honest all we could say at that point was, come on spring and melt this ice.

Come on Spring!!!

Hard to believe in about 6 weeks the Lady J will be in the water.

It's going to have to do some melting before the Lady J will fit in her dock.

After an enjoyable lunch we returned back to the boat.  Mike wanted to remove the propellors from the prop shafts.  This would make one less thing for the marina crew to do when they come to replace the cutlass bearings in the strut that holds the prop shaft.  (Yes Mike was dictating this to me.)  The job went fairly quickly as the previous owner of the Lady J had left on board the prop puller.  All the right tools makes the task much easier.  

Pulling out the cotter pin with a vice grip.

Sometimes you just gotta give it a little wack.

The prop puller left by the previous owner

Getting down here was easy, getting back up well....

All in all it was a very productive day. 

Hopefully this last little bit of snow will be gone when we return.