Other people’s boats

Its been a while since the Indian Summer has left the dock, due to the rain, my time consuming new job, and having to check out one friend’s new baby and another friend’s new baby.  One of the new babies is about 7 1/2 pounds, 19.5 inches and named Skye, while the other one is about 10,200 pounds, 360 inches and named Sirena.  Both of them float and have multiple PFDs, however, only one of them (Sirena) is a boat.  Since this is a boat blog, she is the baby we will discuss.  Skye has her own site under www.theguyots.com

Sirena is a 30 foot Catalina built in 1984 and apparently delivered by Santa to Chris V.  He has referred to her a few times as a "floating RV."  She’s in great condition with all the bells and more than a few extra whistles – I think the only thing lacking is a disco ball.  He purchased her the day before Christmas and got to experience all that lovely "Holy shit what have I done?!?!" that I went through last June.

Last Sunday, I went along as crew on the maiden voyage of Chris, Ken and their boat.  They had hired a lovely boy to guide them through things such as, I don’t know, DOCKING!!!   Chris – practice makes perfect (or at least, that’s what I’ve been told).

The day was beautiful and we spent a lot of time with the new papa getting used to his boat under motor and practicing docking at Ayala Cove – my favorite spot for practicing such things.

I was planning to sail my own baby this weekend, but the weather report is lousy so I’m waiting and seeing.  In the meantime, there’s tons of work to be done on her.