Mast work

 2/26- Vero Beach 

   This morning started on a high note, a literal high note as I ascended our mast. The tape I had used to cover the clevis pins holding the spreaders on had been peeling off. It had been streaming aft for quite some time and it was time to remediate that. It looked kind of ugly flapping around in the breeze but in some cases I thought it was scaring the birds from sitting on the spreaders. Anyway it was a nice calm morning and I got Mike and Bob to come over and crank me up. The whole thing took ten minutes. I do have a mast ladder that I was thinking of trying but I would need to be in the boson’s chair anyway so I asked the guys for help. 

     After we successfully concluded that project we headed out on the bus into town. The bus here is great and most importantly it is free. Rumor has it the reason it is free is to try and get some of the octogenarian drivers off the road. You can get a lot of places on the bus system the hard part is if you have more than one stop. There is only one bus every hour or so and if you need to transfer it just makes more complicated. You just have to hope you can get everything accomplished before the bus heads back. Nothing is worse than walking across the parking lot with three bags of groceries and watching the bus drive by. It’s always good to check the schedule and they have an app that tells you right where the bus is. You just have to plan better. 

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