After more then a year, we start sailing again.
LOCATION: Sugarcreek, Tom Bigbee
Just left Demopolis today. We only did 20 miles south and it is very cold. As soon as we had anchored and after the tortillas we went to bed. The only place to be when it starts freezing on this boat at this moment.
Some names from Demopolis not to forget:
- Fred, the manager of DYB
- Kim, the secretary
- Wally and wife for their weeding and warm goodbye
- Jimbo, the laziest person I ever saw working
- Karate Jim, the fuel-dock worker
- Tom, the old security guard in the weekends. Everybody including himself thought he could die every day. So far, for the security
- Jeff, our neighbor at the hard for a couple of months for the nice cold beers and the showoff with a gun to somebody that was smarter than he was
- The Millers brothers, Steve and Jim. Nice people. Jim gave us a stove to use when it was very cold. They came every weekend to work on their fishing-motorboat. They worked hard and were extremely free giving.
- Randall the Redneck that had dinner with us once
- Jim the preacher of ‘Glory to Thee’ that organized the oak for the Samson post
- Bob Soulee who came to visit us with Xmas on the river
- Linne and Carey and their daughter and husband and baby to come
Right now it is very silent. We could be anywhere except on a boat. No movement at all. No wind, no waves, no cars, no radio.
Now I hear a tugboat in the distance going joushh-joushh. It is still far away and the sound is so low you almost feel it instead of hearing it. I look through the porthole and think I see the big spotlights of the coming tugboat. Instead it is the full moon on a cloudless night. It is going to freeze tonight. Quickly back to bed, the only warm spot on the boat. Vivian is already sleeping.
About Watergeus
I’m overjoyed that everything seems to work. Proud too, as I did everything myself. From design to realization. We had one malfunction. The depth-meter didn’t work. The sounder is glued in a PVC-tube and there was too less water in it. Refilling is with a
syringe did the job.I knew that we were anchored in 10 feet of water. Not a bad spot just behind the buoys. No danger that the barges would try to run us down. We had a scope out of 40 feet of chain. I knew that because I painted the chain every 20 feet. Some simple things really support the quality of life.
