Drift Away: Lazy Hazy Crazy Days of Summer

Friday, May 27, 2011

Lazy Hazy Crazy Days of Summer

Spring is gone. The forecast for the coming week is hot, hazy, and humid with temps in the upper 80s. You can see and smell it in the air. This is a work barge leaving in the fog yesterday morning. It's job building a new pier is done.

This sunrise this morning promises a hot and humid day. Summer is here!

So no big plans this weekend. I think we might clean the teak decks and seal them with Thompson's Advance Formula Water Seal since it worked so well on the flybridge deck. I have a few minor things to do on the '56 Thunderbird.

So it looks like Saturday is boat/car projects, Sunday is a car show, and Monday we'll bring the T-bird to a Memorial Day parade in Fairfield and then veg out. That's the plan. Somehow, our plans never go the way we plan.

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Drift Away Specs

Drift Away is a 1980 Cheoy Lee 46' LRC (long range cruiser). She has twin 120 HP Ford Lehman diesels, 15 kw and 7.5 kw generators, and carries 800 gallons of fuel and 400 gallons of water. She cruises at 8 knots and has a top speed of 9.5 knots, plenty fast enough for this old sailor.

She is somewhat unique in that the inside helm staion is on the main level, along with the galley and saloon. There is also a helm on the flybridge. The lower level has three staterooms, each with a full head, plus the engine room.

Drift Away sat on the hard for many years before we bought it from an estate. She has suffered considerably from neglect, but we are amazed at all the things that work, like the two Ford Lehmans, and the Naiad stabilizers. There was and is much work to do, but we will return her to ship shape condition. Eventually. As long as it doesn't interfere with having fun.