24 hour turn around.

We left Tuesday morning and headed up to Sandusky to do some work on the Lady J.

 It was a beautiful sunny day, but oh that wind it was a blowing.  

Beautiful day for driving up Route 4, except for that crazy wind.

Our first task was to clean up the inside of the boat which surprisingly was not as in bad of shape as it was this time last year.  After the season anything and everything is stowed pretty much inside the boat, but since Mike had already been up here once this year, things where not in too bad of shape.  All we did is some dusting, sweeping and straightening up.  Then of course trying to find room for all the items we brought with us.

This is the view into the state room.  Bunks must be made up before we can sleep.

Supplies needed put away and our new cushions needed to be put in place.

Galley was in need of a little attention.

We hung the new curtains and brushed away all the winter cob webs.  It took us a little while to get all of this accomplished but afterwards she was back to her old self.  Sorry now pictures of the cleaned up version, those will come later.

 We ended the day with a quick bite to eat and enjoyed this beautiful night time sky.  What you can't tell from this picture is that by this time the wind was blowing about 30-40 miles an hour.  Yikes.  We spent the evening inside the boat praying the crazy wind didn't tip us over.  Although if ours went so would the other dozen or so boats that were stored right next to us.

We arose this morning to a little calmer wind but much cooler temperatures.  We went for a walk down to our dock and stopped for a bit to talk with Ed.  Ed I think is always the first to have his boat put in the water.  He lives on his boat from mid April until the end of the season in August. We think he is about in his 70's.  What a nice man.

Our pier is on the right and Ed's boat is the first one on the left of the pier.

After our walk we immediately started to work on putting the struts and propellors back on the Lady J.  Mike worked outside while I worked inside to get these things installed.  Luckily Mike was able to do this work and saved us a load of money.  Oh and did I mention the temperature at this point was about 37 degrees and it started to snow, yeah I said snow.  Ya just wanted to say "what the..."

Mike working with a floor jack to help him support the struts during installation.

I was lucky enough to be able to help him out by putting the lock washers and nuts on from the inside.

Lying on the floor was the easiest way to get to these bolts.

We were able to get this task accomplished pretty quickly.  We then headed over to the Marina's Service Department.  Yesterday one of the guys came over to let us know that the oven/stove combination we had ordered had been delivered.  We were so surprised that this arrived so quickly since we had only placed the order on Sunday.  Last year I used a stove top and a toaster oven to cook with and after our harrowing passage across Lake Erie I am sorry to say the toaster oven didn't make it.  So the Captain decided we needed a real oven/stove combination.  We hauled it over the top of the boat, remember it is in dry dock and the deck of the boat is 8 feet off the ground so it was a little bit of a challenge.  Mike went to install it and found out the appliance was about 1-3/4 inches to tall for our space.  Ugh!!!  But as always Mike figures out a way to make it work.  Picture will be forth coming as soon as the problem is solved.

After tackling the oven, Mike looks as me and says we are done with all our jobs and that there was no reason to stick around on the boat in 30 mile an hour winds and yes snow flakes.  So we packed it up and headed back to Columbus.