Lazing back, 10-17 through 10-20

Friday, October 17 through, Monday, October 20, 2014 

We slept late.  Fueled up, pumped out. As Tim tended to Sea Fever, Kathy wandered down the dock and chatted with some folks in a wooden boat who had just tied up. She learned that there was to be a classic wooden boat gathering on Saturday.  We chatted with some folks who promised us a ride on their boat. Way cool.

If there seems to be a theme, it is friends, laundry and Walmart.  Oh, and boat repair. Friday, we changed it up and went to a local grocery store to pick up some staples.  We passed a restaurant named The Rib Cage.  You just have to go to something called that!   And Kathy did laundry while Tim tried to whittle down his list of boat projects.

Sure enough, we were scooped up on Saturday evening by folks we had met at the Rendezvous, and we did end up going to the Rib Cage for dinner.

Sunday, we met up with the folks that promised us a boat ride on their 1948 wooden runabout.  Built the same year Tim was!  It had been in their family forever.  It was a great ride, and great weather.

Mark and Karen aboard Torpedo

Kathy after the "Torpedo" ride



Another boat at the show

Folks hanging out talking about their boats

 

It is nice to buddy up with another boat as we continue our trip.  At Agua, there is a couple, Jeff and Elizabeth, traveling with 5 year old son, Daniel.  They too are making the trip in a sailboat…a 27 foot Island Packet. 

Tim finished up some engine work on Sunday, Kathy worked on the blog.  We decided to stay one more day at Aqua.  Monday morning we returned our rental car to Corinth, picked up some groceries, and prepared to head out on Tuesday down the Tennessee-Tombigbee Waterway, continuing our journey south.