May 21, 2009 – Thursday
Thursday dawned with bright sun and warmer temperatures again. There were very light winds and it was a perfect day for decommissioning the boat. We removed the sails first and laid them out in the parking lot to dry. We washed down the entire boat, cleaned the cockpit covers inside and out and when they were dry took them off and put them away. We removed the boom vang and boom and what we could of the canvas framework. We took out all the perishable food, cleaned out the storage lockers and washed all the areas we could, including the cockpit cushions. We finished in about 5 ½ hours and by 12:30 we hit the showers to clean up, change clothes and then hit the road for home. We all decided we would prefer to drive straight through instead of spending a night on the road. The closer we got to Michigan the worse the weather became and we drove through a fair amount of rain toward the end of the trip.
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