People often ask us what to we do on days like today, when it is wet, windy and not a great day for sailing.
Well as you can see from this photo it is dark, wet and windy here at the harbor. We arrived into the houseboat at 9am and as it is so windy on the lake (about 17 knots out of the North East) there is a bit of a swell coming into the harbor. Firstly we do a check on all the boats and make sure that they are correctly moored at the docks and have not suffered any damage throughout the night. We are happy to report that all are in good condition. Once that is done we brew a nice big pot of coffee, sign in to the computer system and get to work!
As for us in the Houseboat... well lets just say that we are a bit dizzy. As there is a swell coming into the harbor we are gently rocking around on board our floating houseboat. At the start of the season it takes all of us a few days to become used to the motion of the office. Yes we know, we are very lucky to have a floating office, but it does take a bit of getting used to.
So this morning we are busy taking reservations here at the houseboat, today alone we have scheduled two Basic Sailing 101 courses, a Catalina 390 charter for May and a Refresher course for May.
Donnie and Chad are here on board the houseboat with me (Ronan). Donnie is busy sowing (a man of many talents is our Donnie) our cushions for inside our J30 - Traveller. We had them cleaned for the season. Unfortunately though it is a tedious job to get the covers back over the cushions as the foam firstly has to be wrapped in plastic sheeting and then the covers led over the foam. Luckily for Donnie he is on the last of 16 covers. He vows that he will not be doing this again and will personally find anyone that stains the freshly cleaned cushions!!
Here we have a photo of one of our new staff members for 2007- Chad. Chad started a couple of weeks ago here in the office and is getting used to life aboard a floating office.
Chad is one of our team of Reservation assistants/ schedulers and is busy taking calls today. Chad is a MA student at University of Chicago studying the history of religion. He is taking a much needed break from academics for the spring and summer. Chad has done a few sailing trips in the past (he sailed with Ash Hoffman one of our instructors from Connecticut to Maine) and is looking forward to doing a lot more with us this season. Chad will be with us all summer and will be only too happy to discuss the merits of the many religions that he has studied in the past...:).
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