On Memorial Day we had a boat-warming BBQ at Pisces.
The weekend leading up to the BBQ was cold, windy;
in general not good BBQ weather and I wasn't hopeful for a good day for our BBQ.

However Memorial Day was perfect,
and our friends piled on Pisces until the waterline was lower than we'd ever seen.

We hope that everyone had as good a time as we did-from the big smiles and sunburned shoulders at the end of the day, I'd say they did. Many thanks to Rob for stepping in to grill the most delicious burgers and dogs!




The next step for us is to start on our list of short- and long-term projects to get Pisces ready. This last weekend was productive: we sold the inflatable dinghy (yay!); changed the radar mounting (we used a rotating arm that previously supported a TV to mount the radar inside so that the radar can be swung inside to be viewed from the nav. station and swung out through the companionway so it can be seen from the cockpit); and removed the pesky GPS mount (that I always sat on) and other unwanted hardware in the cockpit and spent the day epoxying and filling miscellaneous holes and cracks.


However, the largest project that we began this weekend was re-designing the head. We removed the cabinets in the head in preparation for our new design: a large workbench and tool and parts storage. The head looks like we've taken a wrecking ball to the area, but the space we gained is significant. We need workbench and tool storage space more than we need a third sink (in addition to the two in the galley) and pressure water. More on this as we progress.