We went down to the boat this weekend to try out the new engine. The boat has to make the trip up to Riverside. Anyway the engine worked great! We took it out for a 2 hour shake down cruise. Kudos to the crew at Swan Creek Marina for all their great work. We jumped into the pool to cool off afterwords. This is our first heat wave of the season. Then we spent the rest of the afternoon with Glenn and Carol on their boat, it's air conditioned! Glenn was showing me all the Catalina tips. After dinner a thunder storm brewed up with the worst lightning that I had ever seen. We closed the hatches and ran off the boat to the marina porch then later to the car! This was really bad. I was not going to sit under a large aluminum mast. Well no boats got hit but I did not put in the compainionway boards. It never rains in the boat with bimini cover up. Well it did. What a mess wet cushions everywhere. We cleaned up as best we could. I did not sleep a wink crunched in another bunk. Sunday morning the sun came out. We put the cushions out every thing dried up in a few hours. I had time to do just a little more varnishing. The pool was a great oasis.
The thing that I'm convinced that we need more than anything for the new boat is a nettle net. so that we can cool off on days like today and not meet any jellyfish.