Life in the Marina

As it is the last day of August and I am feeling like it, I thought I would see what comes out in the blog.  I have spent a tremendous amount of time attending networking events handing out business cards, collecting business cards, shaking hands, that sort of thing.  Not at all nautical!  There hasn't been much nautical going on.  We haven't had the boat out of the berth since Easter.  No particular reason, we've just found ourselves wrapped up in getting life on land sorted, you know, grocery shopping, laundry, that sort of thing.  We hope to get away at least overnight in the next couple of weeks.  I have had a couple of business trips, one to Brisbane, one to LA.  Brisbane was a lot nicer.  I ended up flying to LA for 2 days of meetings.  It took 5 ½ days to do it.  I am hoping not to have too much more in the travel department this year.  Maybe back to Aussie, but we'll see.  Winter hasn't been too bad.  June was pretty cold (well cold for us) with temps doen as low as zero.  Lucky for us, daytime temps are pretty much always double digits.  It's getting progressively nicer now with highs 16-19, pretty much perfect.  The winds are here however with the equinox approaching so still a bit cool when facing into 35-40 knots.  The boat has been over almost 10 degrees in the berth today, fun!  We get a fair bit of movement on the boat in this marina.  The floating breakwater doesn't damp down the swell, just breaks the waves.  There is a ferry that runs past the outside of the marina and you can always tell they've gone.  7 ½ minutes after they pass, the boats rolls around like we're on the ocean sailing in cross seas.  Some days, it's lots of fun as you grab in to the coffee pot to stop it sliding off the table during breakfast.  The 7 ½ minutes by the way is the official number from well placed marina staff (ok the security guy).  It can be a bit weird when you're walking down the dock and the swell rolls through.  Visually, the dock is rolling up and down with the boats not quite in sync to it.  Maybe this is where the whole "drunken sailor" thing came from.