Out of the water at St. Mary's Boatyard, GA

After a nice visit with Beth, we arrived in St. Mary's to find Latitudes well.   Dirty, but well!  All seems ok; just needs a good washing when we get back in the water.

It was beautiful when we arrived here - 70 degrees!  The car was packed to the roof almost and we were dreading the many trips up the ladder, ducking under the hanging dinghy, up the stern of the boat, and into the cockpit with our many packages.  But!  The boatyard came to the rescue!  First, a nice set of steps letting us easily get on Latitudes from the side.  But even better, a forklift that took all of our many bags to the deck of the boat for easy unloading! Two trips!  Boy, do they ever treat us wonderfully here!

Yes, there were the usual too many bags!  No, I haven't had that tank top on since!

Smoke remembered the boat immediately, of course.  zip,zip, zip, up and down and into every nook and cranny to check out her world.  At one point, she became suspicious of our activity -  afraid, I guess, that we would take her off the boat and back to the car.  She "hid" under the console.

It was cold last night.  Not as cold as the 8 degrees at home (wind chill of about -1000....) but cold.  26 is cold when you are off of the ground with basically no insulation.  We have heaters in the boat but managed to keep it only at 55 during the night. Thank goodness for electric blankets!  Today was cold and windy; tonight only about 33.  It should start warming up tomorrow. 

One more coat of paint on the underside, a few chores, and a lot more "moving in and stowing", and hopefully we'll be back in the water on Sunday.  We're looking forward to that!

And -  hoping this is one of many - our first sunset of this trip!