Back to work - Early April

We are back from all our travels taking care of errands and visiting family members that will be traveling out of the country.   The seasons are changing from a very pleasant winter in florida to spring and the temps are slowly rising.  This necessitated a trip to WalMart for the purchase of the all important air conditioner!

Carter immediately installed it in the forward hatch and it works great!  We had the temp in the salon area down in the low 70's in no time.  It makes for a very comfortable escape from the daytime heat.  It is still comfortable in the evening time.  Fortunately, the Honda EU3000 generator is handling the load well.

Next on the 'to do' list for Carter was to install the stove/oven for me.  Yea!  We finally decided on the stove I purchased off Craigslist from a guy in Georgia for $100!  It's brand new but is not marine grade.  We expect it to last for a good couple years and then we will search for one that has the gimble feature.

I just had to test out the oven.  Triple chocolate cake with dark chocolate frosting!  Complements of Carter's mother Lee who cleaned out her pantry before packing for moving overseas and sent it all home with us.  Mmmm good stuff.

Moving on...Next Carter removed the pulpit that was badly deteriorated and replaced the anchor guide.  We like the look of this with the new canopy that's going up.  Also, Carter found large posts shaped as spindles to use instead of just plain 2x4's for the canopy supports.  We feel this was a good addition because we plan to use wood spindles all around the boat for the life line railing.  We smile just thinking about the finished look.

With old pulpit

With pulpit removed and anchor guide relocated.

Canopy support posts.

Measure....6-7 times...cut once!

Today Carter will bolt these posts to boat, finish staining the canopy and complete cross bracing with cables.  Then it will be ready to install the solar panels.