It is amazing how much stuff you can pack on a boat if you try. The pile was growing and so was my concern–but what the heck, I am going to be gone for 3 months so you need a lot of stuff to keep comfortable and happy, eh?
Mike and Sean and Peter were real troopers to put up with the chaos on the boat. Everything was on board but a lot of it did not have a home. That was my job to sort that out. By the way, the skeleton in the background did not come on board. I was afraid if I brought Mr. Bones with me that potential crew and visitors might flee at first sight of him–thinking that he met his end at the hand of my cooking and culinary skills (note the can of Spam and cocktail wieners in my hands 🙂

Even our cats were quite perplexed by the mountain of stuff that had invaded our family room–and what they considered to be mostly their personal space! Now that I had a few days layover in Port Stanley prior to the next leg of my journey, my mission was to properly sort through all that stuff and find a home for it. But first I had to go shopping to buy some more stuff that was on a list that I thought up en route to Port Stanley. Time to head off to my favorite boating supply stores – Wal Mart and and Canadian Tire!