First meal aboard Athena :D (Patreon)

Having now cooked (if you can call it that) my first meal aboard Athena in 4 years, I feel like I'm only a few weeks from moving aboard. While that's not true, the day is getting closer and closer. I'm hoping to get Athena back in the water sometime in the fall. Winter slip fees are very affordable around here. I think it's around $200 for the winter season. That would allow me to work on Athena while still living aboard obelix. When spring comes around, it'll be easy to move to Athena and put Obelix up for sale.   

The plan for the summer is still to finish as many exterior projects as I possibly can. At the top of my list is to get the topsides painted. It might turn out to be a very wet summer, so I want to check that big job off the list as quickly as possible, hopefully, in the next three weeks. After that, the pressure is off in terms of weather. I still need to apply copper coat to a few areas of the hull and mount deck hardware, but that is stuff I can do even if we get a very rainy summer. After the paint job, I think my new top priority will be the mini-bulwark/toe-rail. 

The details for the 102 generator have been ironed out. I'm waiting for a new flywheel housing and some parts for the alternator. Unfortunately, I'm going to be waiting up to 21 days for the alternator parts, but after that, it should be smooth sailing :) 

I'm heading back up to Athena tonight to clean up the leading edge of the dodger. While uploading this video, I applied more fairing compound to the deck-hull joint. I'm going to get so much done in the next three weeks! It's going to be glorious :D 

I hope you guys have had an awesome weekend. Thank you so much for your support :)