I'm feeling the effects of yesterday's boat yoga and elbow grease application. All my muscles, but especially the ones on the upper part of my body, are sore. Ibuprofen will help. In bed now, having my coffee, listening to the wind toss one of my burgees into the guy wires on my mast. I'll fix that later.
I'll start the day with a trip to Walmart and/or Target to pick up a few things. Maybe a stop at Trader Joe's, too; ramen soup is really hitting the spot in the evening. (1/2)
@mlanger thinking of burgees slapping - when we started cruising, we had a variety of central american courtesy flags aboard. The Belize flag flogged itself to shreads in the steady trade winds within thirty days - $1/day for a courtesy flag?! I swore never again, and bought a sheet of aluminum which I could cut into 8"x11" rectangles. In each of them, I pressed two brass grommets (dissimilar metal!), and I acquired a set of little bottles of primary color oil paints. So then I could paint whatever courtesy flag I required on two days' notice. (and they did not flap in the breezer at all! Just stood proud)
The clearance officer at Aruba did not like the look of it and said the flag had to be "fabric". I countered that the flags on commercial airliners are painted on aluminum and they are cleared. She was grouchy about it but let it go. Nobody else ever commented among the port officials. I think a few other shoestring budget cruisers adopted similar practice. I also had a Q flag in aluminum.
@CadeJohnson No metal flags for me. But it does sound like a good idea.
I think I’m going to just take this one down if I can’t stop the noise. If it bugs me, it must drive charter guests insane.
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Cade