Let’s not kid – it was windy and in the upper 30’s on that beach, and our toes were numb, but it didn’t even matter.
We also took down the plastic cave we’ve been living in for the past five months. The wind actually did it for us a few nights ago when it was gusting to nearly 40mph, and blew out the starboard side door. Yeah… try experiencing that in a boat. The only thing that made us feel a little better that night was watching our neighbors in their 40′ monohulls getting tossed around like float toys.
Our neighbor called Matt at work the other day to tell him that the wind was basically blowing our shrink wrap off the boat. Gotta love those strong Northerly winds.
By the end of the day, our boat looked pretty scrappy. And because we’ll never let ourselves become “those” live aboards (oh cm’on… we all know the stereotype), we decided it was time to officially shed the skin.