Time spent

We slept that night on Simplicity, in Washington Park. As soon as it started to almost start to get dark, the deer started to come out, does, fawns, and even a forkie came out. This guy was driving by and caught a glimpse of the forkie, and he almost ended up in the bushes. I heard the wife yell, and the brake lights turned on. The Captain prepped for unstepping the mast. We decided to unstep in the morning. We didn't have to have the truck back until 11:45am. We have plenty of time. Roxi and I woke up to the Captain banging around up top, as usual. It was almost time to unstep. We got her unstepped without much trouble, The hardest thing really was moving the mast forward, the truck was hindering us from balancing the mast on the front rail. But we did it. 

Got it wrapped up, and Captain Carey got her all tucked in her corner, back to the car, gassed up, and back to the U-haul, only about 5 minutes late, and that didn't really count because the kids and I were there at 11:40. I loaded the truck stuff in the car, while the Captain took care of the paperwork. Then we went back to Simplicity to get her all wrapped up for the winter. Captain Carey got her tarped up, in the rain, and we headed home. We got home at about 5:30pm. And we are now working on getting things together for a yard sale. It seems like every time we go up and spend any time with Simplicity, We are reminded of our goal. Cruising.!!!   bunkmate

Plan "B"

There was no way we could pull her out of this ramp. It was way too shallow. It's a good thing he had researched renting a truck, and checked into some storage lots. He called U-haul  to check out their prices on renting a truck, it was $25.00 for the 10 foot truck, and budget was pretty close to the same, but, U-haul was closer so we hopped in the car, and drove over. So we chatted with the guy and come to find out, the 'lot' is actually some property that he has out by the airport, for only $40.00 a month. So off we go. We took the truck and trailer out to Washington Park. It was around 3:30 when we sailed away from Cap Sante Boat Harbor. And of course we were headed out, as the tide was headed in, so we ended up motoring all the way through Guemes Channel. On the way out we found a sea lion on the green buoy #5, by the ferry terminal, sleeping away, and did not want to be bothered by us humans. The Washington Park boat dock is a pretty busy little dock. So we couldn't dawdle. We didn't hurry or anything, and we got her in her cradle the first try. We both were happy about that. We make a pretty good team.  bunkmate

My Tow Car

Our weekend tucking Simplicity away for the winter went just like any other time when you make all theses plans, prepare like crazy, and one little thing happens, and everything is thrown in different directions, and you have to start completely over. o.k it wasn't that bad, but, here we go.  Our plan for the weekend was to sail Simplicity down to Oak Harbor, put her on the hard, under tarps, and left stepped, for the winter. Simple? Ha! Never.:  Last week the tow package for my car showed up, so husband spent the next couple of evenings installing it. He's kinda handy like that. We got everything together & done, so after work on Thursday we headed out, around 6:30ish. towing Simplicity's trailer. My Avenger towed the trailer without any trouble, even up the mountains. We arrived in Anacortes at 3:30am. We threw everything on board and had a couple of brews to unwind, and slept for a couple for a couple of hours. The Captain woke up @ 7:30ish to take the trailer to Oak Harbor, ride the transit back to Cap Sante, so we could sail Simplicity down to Oak Harbor, pull her out, on her trailer, and be able to leave her stepped, in case we are able to come up and maybe go sailing. And then it happened, BOOM. All the planning, gone. It wasn't so bad though. It was time to whip out the 'ol 'plan B'. The Captain has a pocket full of 'em.    bunkmate

WOW

Today I checked my e-mail, and,,,,, found an article that I had submitted to the Orca Network Whale Watch, on their web sight. I'm pretty proud of it. It's been a long time since anything of mine has been published, let alone on such a popular web sight.  bunkmate

Oak Harbor

So apparently I've known all along, haha, and it was my idea, to put Simplicity on the hard at  the Oak Harbor Marina. Because if we bring her home, the Captain will undoubtedly spend more of the 'boat fund' on her. Plus we can keep her stepped, so we can possibly go up for a long weekend, and go far a sail or two. I guess I didn't realize that, that was the plan we were sticking with. So off we go to Oak Harbor, drop off the car and trailer, then go by ferry, and/or the great transit system to Anacortes, and sail back down to Oak Harbor. My car will pull the trailer, but she won't be able to pull Simplicity out of the water, so we will cross that bridge when we get there.  bunkmate

Our plan??

Well the weekend to decide what to do with Simplicity is here. We got the tow package for my car, to pull her trailer back up to Anacortes. My car can't pull her back soo,, If we have a plan, I'm not aware of it. I'm still in the dark. I'm excited to see her again, and I'm afraid the Captain is ready to put her up for sale soon, and get on to the next step, 'cruising'. I'm ready to, too, but, I'm having issues not needing all the 'stuff'. I'm pretty sure that after all is done, I will only miss them sometimes.   bunkmate

Decisions, decisions

We are still debating on what to do with Simplicity.. Should we bring her back to Medford, Oregon,, or leave her in Anacortes, Washington, on the hard. Either way we are going to put her up for sale soon. We ordered a 'tow package' for my car, and will be going up, and pulling her out of the water. We are throwing a bunch of scenarios around, because we are going to downsize again soon, and we probably wont have anywhere to keep her. Hopefully we will be closer to knowing by the time we leave.