Slow and Steady

I can always backtrack to two years ago when this all really started. For now, I will give the short summary of this moment. S/V Skagua is moored at the end of a really long dock in Moss Landing. The only vessel in the slip to our starboard is a pod of about 20 sealions who bark, sneeze, grunt, splash, and sunbathe just feet away from our gunwhales. Mark, the boat owner to our portside has built effective barriers on the dock to protect them from boarding his boats, and ours. Brian walks 5 - 7 days per week through this gauntlet of possessive pinnipeds, and works. His work most recently is sanding and epoxying the roof stringers of the house he is building over the cockpit. Four hours to sand all of these stringers, 2 hours to roll on the epoxy. When this process is complete, he gets to attach the roof which he built and is painting/epoxying at home in his workshop.

At home, my job is to keep teaching the girls and begin emptying our house in preparation to rent it when we depart.