Sailing season’s over for another year - mixed feelings of course but a satisfying effort.
So today (and well, yesterday and also another few days last week) we’ve been busy getting Cool Heads Prevail ready to be lifted out of the water.
This means: sailing her from Illinois to Michigan, unbending the sails, flaking them so they’ll fit into their big bags, stowing them in our car (for now), striking the bimini and dodger, removing their canvases, drying them (because it’s been raining for four days now!), disassembling the frameworks, removing the food from the refrigerator & cabinets, pulling off the bed linens and towels, gathering up our clothes and coats and shoes and books and games . . .
And then - with very experienced helping hands at West Basin Marina in St. Jospeh, Michigan - moving CHP to dry dock for the winter.
