"There is nothing more pleasant than cruising on a boat with the whole family."
Letter from Empress Catherine the Great

Wednesday, March 25, 2020

March 10 - 25 -- Corona Virus Slows Activity Even More

Yes, the virus has slowed life to a standstill. We are hibernating in our apartment, walking up ten flights to a higher floor and back down twice a day to keep the muscles from atrophy. Also walks, near salt or brackish water, across the East River to Brooklyn and back on the Williamsburg Bridge,












along the Hudson where we saw a shuttered party boat,












and to Marine Park in lower Brooklyn, a park I had not known existed.

The Defender Store, a discount chandlery, has a sale toward the end of March each year -- a fun drive with several guys from the Club almost to the Rhode Island border to buy things needed for our boats. Their warehouse annually becomes a happy mob scene so this year for health reasons they agreed to do it by phone or internet. After several hours with their catalog and website, I had my SKU numbers all in a row and placed my order: two kinds of paint and four lines ( from 0.8 mm whipping twine to a 1" double braid mooring pennant). Also, the two new aluminum diesel fuel tanks have arrived and are in the car's back seat and trunk.
The fuel tank project has progressed with the 40 gallons of fuel pumped by jigger siphon from the larger forward tank through hose led through the speedo hole to the empty pails and jugs in a plastic box on the ground below the boat. For the actual siphoning I was fortunate enough to have help from both Lene and Bennett. Bennett also lent me seven of his five gallon pails for storage and I have cleaned out the five gallon yellow diesel Jerry can for that use too. And the old tank is out of the pit in which it has sat these past 20 years. The cleaning of that pit, removal of the old and attachment of the new tank comes next. For the heavy lifting in that regard I am blessed to be able to call upon my nephew, Mendy. During this period I worked on five days (one from home) for 14 hours.
Early in this period, before the severity of the quarantine set in, we enjoyed a lovely social dinner at Bennett and Harriet's house.
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