Finally moved aboard 3 days ago and have been living aboard since then and loving it. It’s been hectic to say the least!! Imagine moving into a new apartment and essentially trying to completely fit it out with all you need for living – bedding, pillows, towels, crockery, cutlery, and the myriad of other things that one needs for relatively comfortable living.
Then there’s the question of finding place for everything and remembering where you put it.
Add to that a trip to the Annapolis boat show to look at dinghy’s, outboard motors, and a host of other things for the boat.
Slowly the boat is getting tidier and cleaner – Mary is doing a sterling job of getting us shipshape while I have been busy sorting our the tools – they all are very rusty and inventorying the mechanical stuff; repairing a leaky tap and a leaking drain from the sink. Simple jobs but time consuming. For instance, the sink required a new drain attachment which we bought. Then I found that I had to replace the other one (in the double sink) as well. So this entailed 2 8km trips to the Home Depot Store for the various parts. And so it’s been with a number of other things – mostly entailing multiple trips to the shops!!
I think I have had enough “retail therapy” to last a few years 
but there’s still more to get.
and we haven’t even started on the groceries – “provisions” – for our trip down the ICW!!!!
And with boats there’s always something that takes longer than usual!! New throttle controls require an additional part that has to be ordered in and so the delays mount up. Need to install davits for the dinghy but have to wait for them to be manufactured and then shipped to me! Delays, delays.
Still, overall, I’m giving everything a 10/10
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