San Diego Yacht Club

Whenever we spend a few days on recips at SDYC, I come away relaxed, relaxed, relaxed. Can’t work on the boat there (yeah!) so we have no choice but to just enjoy life for a couple days. We pulled into SDYC from the A9 anchorage on Tuesday and spent that day at the North Island wood shop milling (again!) and then spent yesterday visiting Paul at Absolute Saab to figure out what we’re doing with Buttercup and Wesley in regards to repairs big and small. A visit to Paul is fun…he lives out in the middle of nowhere on a great little up-down-all-around dirt road. Driving a 99 (like Buttercup) there is so “natural” that I think Paul purchased the place just to have that fun “Saab” drive.

We’ve purchased a rebuilt tranny for Wesley from Paul. As usual, while David is working on boat projects he starts “craving” car projects. So, next week we’ll be picking it up and David will be having “fun” pulling the old one out of Wesley and installing the new one. That means Wesley should be good-to-to for another decade or two. I suppose David will have to go back to boat projects 🙂

We left SDYC this morning and are anchored (again) in nearby La Playa. Lovely long weekend with Veterans’ Day starting today.

The AYC days are over for a bit!

Yea! No more Alaskan Yellow Cedar for a while! Onwards to working installing all the Sapele that we milled into parts for the main saloon. Tomorrow we’ll be working together to get the framing in place for the starboard seat, behind seat storage, and pilot berth above that storage. Exciting! We spent many hours milling all the wood for this so its great to be putting it in!

Just call me “Sneezy”

No matter how careful David is with dust collection, the very fine dust of the Alaska Yellow Cedar (AYC) has me sneezing immediately following the first cut. Then within 1/2 hour I’ve got a sinus headache that’s killer. Truly amazing since he’s cutting wood outside the boat nowhere near where I am inside the boat. The smell of the AYC is wonderful but the after effects are awful for me. Today, I got smart and took an antihistamine as David started working. So far the headache is at bay but I can feel my sinuses stopping up so it’s only a matter of time…

And to think that it was ME who decided to use AYC on many parts of the boat’s interior!

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