Boating

There are many times during the day you are reminded you are on a boat. The lovely gently rocking motion back and forth, the sporadic clanging of a halyard, the hum of the wind generator and the emergency 2 am drill when you realize it is raining and you have to rush around pulling everything in from the cockpit and closing all the hatches. The 2 am drill happened to us last night. Once everything was soundly secured from the elements we settled ourselves back in bed. Ahhhhh! The gentle rocking of the boat helped us drift back to sleep. And then -SPLAT! A big drop of water on my head. I reached up in the dark to the small little porthole right above me and sure enough it was leaking. No worries I thought. I won't wake Darryl. I will just press a piece of paper towel against it and we will deal with it in the morning. Just a little pressure to keep it -OMG!!! There goes the porthole! Pushed my hand right through it! Now it is pouring rain in the v-berth and the window portion is lying outside on the deck. Fortunately Darryl, sensing trouble and clearly not able to sleep through my cursing, got up, grabbed our trusty roll of "TEAR-AID" and went out and taped the thing back in place. (It will be securely caulked when the weather allows.) After the very loud sigh I heard before he got back into bed I decided the best use for the paper towel would be on my head and not in the porthole. (Note to self - paper towel on head goes on the list of things that remind you that you are on a boat.) Fortunately when I woke up the paper towel was still dry, which is an excellent testimonial for "TEAR-AID" by the way. Today it is still raining which (in case you didn't know) actually shrinks your boat by about 25% by virtue of the fact you are less than 2 feet from your spouse all day. Just Kidding!! It is Valentine's Day!! We will make the most of it! Meaning of course that I will find the chocolate almonds I stashed away a few weeks ago and eat them, I mean share them. While the boat gently rocks....Happy Day everyone!