Chilly and Blustery in Key West

Today declared itself a workday. We got back to the boat after dark last night and noticed a bit of bird poop on deck, but --oh my gosh--in the morning we realized that all the canvas, the clear plastic windows, the solar panels and most of the deck were covered in poop and it was drying fast! So, to work we went! While I scrubbed and washed, John started installing things--new lens for navigation light, new handle for outboard tiller, new shower head, tightened alternator, etc. We stopped to grill hamburgers for lunch and will soon be back at work--thought you'd like to know. It's a warm and lovely day--Wednesday, January 18--I don't know why the blog format thinks it is Jan. 17th.

The Key West City Marina mooring field was really rocky when we took this picture last week. It's nice to be attached to a mooring, but there's no protection from the north--which happens to be where the wind was coming from. So we rode the chop and bounce around in the boat.

Of course, we have all kinds of things on board to make even a rocky mooring pleasant--Nutella and chips--yes! Great comfort food.


And, this comfortable little home afloat.
Day or night, it's a nice place to be.

When we did finally get off the boat Sunday afternoon, we headed down to Schooners Wharf where all the racing boats were coming in for Key West Race Week. This is Schooners Wharf--it's an outdoor bar right on the dock area.

We met two deaf/mute guys there. We didn't chat much--it's hard, ya know--but we did take a picture for them and they, in turn, offered to take our picture for us--so here we are. You can see that it's chilly. I've got on the wool sweater I knitted for myself.

Here is John aboard making phone calls. He has on the sweater I knitted for him. We were hoping to only use the wool sweaters for overnight passages out in the ocean, but as it turns out there are opportunities for warm sweaters at port.

We're looking for the weather to warm up and KW Race week to get going.