It's getting to be the time to start thinking about our summer cruise adventures and for getting sv/Oriane ready to go back in the waters of Maine.

Weekend weather is challenging our ability to get boat prep done.

 Latitudes and Attitudes Magazine has published my follow-up article to the Coast of Maine Favs.

The my favs of adventuring into the Bay of Fundy  is in the just-released Jan/Feb issue.

Check it out online or even better, pick up a copy.

Spending the weekend in Pulpit Harbor

Magazine article published

Latitudes and Attitudes is publishing my article on Favorite Harbors.

sv Oriane is launching June 6 for another summer of cruising along the coast o'Maine.

Shorelines

 Shorelines are a seemingly unchanging constant in the human time span.

For the mariner, shorelines offer both refuge and danger. The interface between soft and hard, safety and disaster.

Carefully approached shorelines provides refuge from the storm, safe harbor from wind and waves. Shorelines presents danger from unseen, unforgiving land both subsurface and above the tide line.

Charted knowledge present safe harbor for the attentive.

There’s a stillness in the world of Pulpit Harbor this fine Sunday morning broken only by bird song, the crinkle of an eagle’s feathers as he hunts along the shoreline and the low rumble of April Brown’s lobster boat as she gets ready for a morning of setting traps.

Yesterday’s weather is over the horizon and the morning dawns clear as the Sun warms the cockpit. The water is glassy with the tall masts of the schooner Stephen Tabor reflecting on the surface from where she is anchored nearby.

It’s time for coffee.

 Spring Commissioning for Oriane

Highlighted tasks are completed 

First Tasks

Cover off

Batteries hooked up and charged

Interior cleaned and straightened up

get rid of mold & absorbant stuff

Dodger and bimini installed

Solar panel hooked up

Engine commissioned

tape waterline

Bottom paint

New zincs installed

Interior teak oiled

cushions off and delivered to cleaner

get cockpit cushions

Clean under galley sink

Clean bilge – inspect hoses and pump

Hull waxed

Hot water heat exchanger valves

clear tank vents

Water system flushed and filled

Before Launch

Distance log reset to zero

Check safety gear - update as necessary

Documentation on board

Post launch

Personal gear onboard - PFD, Foulies, etc

get sails & bent-on

Zinc in Heat Exchanger 9/16” nut

Deck cleaned

As possible

Re-bed deck fittings

Service winches

Clean cockpit lockers and rearrange gear

horn for hailer

Replace nav lights with LED’s

Replace Deck lights with LED’s

Redo teak deck