5-15-99:
Being Cap’t Ziggy’s Birthday it was naturally a bright sunny
weekend. I have held huge (200+ guest) outdoor bashes
on this weekend for most of my life and don’t remember a single
rainout. Just lucky I guess! I must me growing up some because I celebrated
with a couple of fine (read: expensive) restaurants, some fantastic
Michigan wines, and lots of hard work on the “Peregrine”.
After
a group effort involving a lot of work from an assortment of friends,
we are scheduled to be hoisted in next weekend! I can’t begin
to thank everyone enough. Pictured here is C.K & son. We were
the cut and grinding team. Doing the dirty work of preparing the keel
for painting. The Port Austin Reef had left it’s signature on
it last spring on the “98” Shakedown Cruise. We definitely
shook it!
After the grinding, filling, sanding, and some pin striping work I
turned it over to the wheeling, waxing, and bottom painting team of
my girlfriend and her 8yr old daughter. You can see the “before
and after” effect in these two pictures. Well worth the work.
I’ve already spent 4 weekends sleeping on the boat and it’s
not in the water yet.
Now
we have to struggle though the mud and low water like a salmon swimming
upstream to it’s birth place, back to Pt. Huron and hope she
can get past the shoal at the mouth of the Yacht Club entrance. Many
of our friends are already docked there so the dock parties are all
warmed up! For those of you following this collection of Ziggy capers
we were able to salvage a “Dino” pic and it’s posted
two capers back where I told you about her. The forecast for next
weekend is for sunshine so far so hopefully the next caper will end
at my slip without too many problems. Always remember that owning
a boat will bring the friends out of the woodwork but the true ones
will find time to help you in the spring when things get messy. Remember
them on the special trips...............Cap’t Ziggy
