Guildive Cruises Blog

Especially when we get wind gusts to 60 mph…..

 

Its never a good feeling when you wake up from the wind gusting and pouring rain and a feeling you have to go check on the boat.  Well that happened to me Monday when the huge wind and rain storm hit the East Coast.  Well I jumped out of bed and zipped over to the boat yard to find the boat’s cover had taken flight.

 

 

 

 

 

Well by myself, early morning, (after calling Zander in Maine) I knew I could not do much so I went home and ate some breakfast – really bummed out – and waited for the rain to stop!  The cover blowing off is one thing, but I had just removed the two skylights in the wheelhouse the day before (to clean and re-bed them) so EVERYTHING in the wheelhouse that was meant to stay dry… tools, paperwork, sandpaper, etc… was just being dumped on by rain, not so awesome.  We had also been trying to dry out the decks to do some work on her seams, and had already had a great month of drying until the rain came!

 

After mustering up some energy, and lots of encouraging phone calls from Zander I made it back to the boat and just took it one step at a time trying to fix everything.  I got all the piping back in order and gave a good family friend, Peter Dudley, a call and said HELP.. PLEASE!!  Physically I could not pick up all that plastic by myself so Peter came over and wrestled the plastic with me back to its spot.  Amazingly it went fairly smoothly with not TOO many holes to speak of….. and Guildive is once again sitting pretty absorbing the suns heat!  Thank you thank you thank you Peter.  

 

 

 

So after the cover was secure I turned to moping out the wheelhouse and drying everything, a good excuse to give her a good cleaning!

 

 

Even with this little setback we are counting our lucky stars that the cover blowing off was the only thing that happened… and it was not much worse.

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