Happy Canada day! Happy new dinghy day! We are feeling great...the plan came together! The night was cool...we felt refreshed upon awakening, had great apple pancakes and then, emptied the water from the dinghy, reinflated the tubes and prayed to the dinghy God to be able to make it to the city dock...just one more time. Every time we travel across Spa creek, we are enchanted by its charm...
We knew that FedEx would be coming around noon and we went for a cup of coffee at the nearby Starbucks, reading the NewYork times and checking for THE FedEx truck. It was another sunny morning and we enjoyed this farniente! At noon, our parcel arrived: we had our heavy duty caddy - gifr from Karen and Lindsay - ready to receive the ca. 100 lbs parcel...Thank God, Annapolis is such a cruiser friendly town that we were able to find a dock large enough to open the huge parcel, and get the new dinghy ready...transfer the outborard engine and then, tear up the old Aquamarine dinghy! We cut up large PVC pieces just in case we need patches...and threw the rest away in nearby dumpsters. It felt good to jus tdig the knife in this Aquamarine piece of ...rubbish. The seams were falling apart, the inflatable keel was not watertight anymore and the water was seeping in madly. This dinghy had not been well assembled...one year after purchase, we had had to re-glue the back to the tubes...and it went downhill from then on...So, we are keeping our fingers crossed that the newly acquired Zoom of Zodiac will be a better purchase!