Finished with new foam in cushions

For about a year now I have been slowly working on placing new foam into all the cushions aboard Aeolus, and it is certainly high among the most worthwhile projects I have undertaken. At least from a comfort point of view. The old cushions were pretty dead, where when you sat on them your butt sank quickly and firmly down to the bottom of the bench and after a short period of time you had to shift around to avoid bruising!

I first tackled the cushion at the navigation and instrumentation table as I sat there constantly and it was dreadfully uncomfortable. Next I did all the foam in the starboard berth as this is where my wife and I usually sleep.

Friendship and Fun

My best pal is an odd man, and I love him for it. A mix of contradictions and symmetries, riddles and clarity. Among his oddities is that he does not love the ocean as much as I do. How can that be? He does not like wind, or being cold or wet. He is a wildlife tracker, and a rock climber, and an elf in the forest, but water is not his world.

After all these years of my kayaking and sailing, he had yet to ever join me on a boat. Sailing has been the guiding principle of my life for ten years, and yet my best friend had not so much as raised a sail once.

We fixed that this past week! He came up from his cozy confines in Marin County, CA and I took him up to Friday Harbor for an overnight on Aeolus. He was game, but worried about getting seasick and the wind and other things he needn't have been worried about.