John and I made our first shopping trip to the mega-mart of boating - West Marine. We needed some new life vests, a pair of hand held VHF radios, anchor rode, a new boat hook and cooler for the boat. We spent a couple of hours looking up and down every aisle until our buggy was filled to the top with all the goodies we had selected for The Hoot. As we were checking out, the elderly Aussie accented clerk chatted with John about our new boat purchase. After ringing up the last item and throwing in a "free" t-shirt to seal the deal he announced our total bill to us "Just barely over one boat unit!"
We've quickly come to learn that a "boat unit" is $1000.
Today we have lots to do. We are flushing out the water tanks. Inventorying the back lazerrette - it's filled with who knows what. We also have some small repair work to do on Ripple, our sad little dinghy that doesn't want to hold air. And if we get all of that done we'll start on tomorrow's list or... have happy hour! I think I know what I'm leaning towards. ;-)
I had to look up what a lazerette was but now that I know it's a storage locker I'm good. Sounds like you guys are having fun.
ReplyDeleteMike and Sylvia
I thought you guys got another dingy early in the game.
ReplyDeleteMike
Sounds like a lot of work with lots of fun and happy hour on the side. Enjoy, love you guys.
ReplyDeleteSylvia
That's exactly right Sylvia. Good fun and hard work. But we're getting closer.
ReplyDeleteMike, lazerette = big storage area full of boat junk.
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