November 15th has come.  That’s the date the boat insurance company wanted us to stay up north to safely avoid hurricane season.  What about snow, I guess they don’t care if we’re freezing.  We’ve had several nights in the 30s and days in the 40s.  Eric took the van to New Jersey and rented a car for the return trip.  We were going to head out on the weekend but there is big wind at Cape Hatteras so we decided to wait for the next weather window.  Not a problem, we have plenty of things still unfinished. Roy had another opportunity to go fishing.  I learned that the stripped bass spawn and spend the spring and summer in New England and the Hudson River and the fall and winter feeding off of North Carolina.  Roy was in the right place at the right time in June when he caught that sea monster whopper fish in New Jersey.

Our neighbor Ben has been a great friend and he has taken care of our fishing needs.  We got to use his crab traps all summer and he’s taken Roy and Eric fishing a few times.  After this trip, Roy decided his arsenal of poles still isn’t adequate. I guess the guy who dies with the most fishing gear is the winner or something.

So, off to work Roy goes, poles don’t grow on trees you know.  Now that I’ve run out of canvas, I’m waxing Makai. Wow, there sure is a lot of surface area here.  It’s not really a technical job, restorer wax on, restorer wax buffed, restorer wax off, paste wax on, paste wax buffed, paste wax off.  The nubby nonskid was a little easier.  We’re not really trying to achieve a shine there, but just protect the gelcoat from oxidation and leaving a chalky residue.  With that we used a small soft kitchen brush to apply the wax into the groves and then a little wiping to get most of the excess off.

After 4 days of this we got 90% of the boat finished, the rest will have to wait for warmer weather.  But Roy was happy because we rode loaner bikes from the marina, got hair cuts, lunch and his new pole.

When Ben came home from work Roy ran over there for a little fishermen bonding time.  They rigged it up and Ben cleaned out his tackle boxes giving Roy a man’s gift bag full of off shore tackle.  Thanks Ben!

At the last minute, Eric, Mr. Fixit, decided he didn’t want to mess with the stove any more.  He’s been wanting to get a new stove for months now and he did it.  The helpful associates at West Marine, know all of us by now and one of the guys brought the stove over on his break.  It would have been difficult to transport on the bicycle.

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The burners are very modern looking in a retro sort of way and the oven door has glass so you can see it the cookies are burning Another feature is I think you can set the temperature.  With the old one you had to turn it up and down based on the thermometer so setting the oven to 350 for 10 minutes was not so easy.

The only downside was the sad picture of the old oven left behind.  What about ohana means family, no one gets left behind.  I remembered the crepes, lasagna, tortillas, oatmeal raisin cookies.  How about all the Mac and Cheese, brownies, or chicken it cooked for us.  I carefully placed the little pieces of blue tape and drew circles so I would know which burner and knob combinations to use.  Sniff Sniff, adios oven, you served us well.

Now is time for Goodbyes, we just made new friends and had to say goodbye.  I met Casey in the library a few weeks ago, asked her if she was homeschooling, introduced myself and it was all fun from there.  Her family is also on an adventure, now quite like ours but equally as adventurous, they sold their house and are buying a 128 acre farm.  While they wait for the banks and real estate agents to get everything in order they had time to play with us.  Casey and Ed have to older boys as well as the crew below, Nick, Henry, Claire, and William. We look forward to learning about farming next summer at their place.  I’m sure they’ll have some job we can help out with.

We said goodbye to the great people who work at the Marina and in the Blue Fish Pub, our friends on other boats and I even texted goodbye to our pal who lives around the corner.  We’ll miss the comfortable lifestyle of driving to where you need to go, filling up the washers with laundry, flipping through cable tv in the heated captains lounge, how about toilets that flush with a push of a lever and hot water showers that freely flow, and of course the dumpster in the parking lot.  Topaz will certainly miss the grass.  Ben took me for a last minute trip to the market where I shopped like a cruiser, if you see something you want, get 3 of them.  We also had Chinese take out. It’s nice to have someone else cook for you once in awhile.  Last winter in the Caribbean, our pals on Orion would trade cooking duties with us once in awhile, I sure did appreciate Anita’s dinners.