Lagoon Cove Lay Day
/A lay day during a long cruise is rarely a day off.
More often, it is a chance to catch up on all the projects and chores that quietly accumulate while underway. Boats, especially older well-traveled boats, always seem ready to provide a fresh list of maintenance opportunities.
Lagoon Cove MArine looking back into clio channel
Karen devoted the day to laundry while I tackled a long-overdue teak deck project: replacing bungs.
Forty-seven of them, to be exact.
in the adjacent small cove is a logging camp
For the non-boaters reading along, teak bungs are the small wooden plugs that cover the screw heads securing the decking. On a 26-year-old teak deck, a certain number eventually work loose, weather away or simply announce that it is time for attention.
The project itself is not particularly difficult. Remove the old bung, clean the recess, glue in the new one, trim it flush and move on to the next. Simple enough in theory.
What the project lacks in technical complexity, however, it more than compensates for in time spent crawling around on hands and knees.
looking back to Lagoon cove from the honeymoon dock
By Happy Hour, I had completed the job and developed a fresh appreciation for upright posture.
As a preventative maintenance measure for tomorrow morning’s anticipated aches and pains, two Advil accompanied my beer at the Lagoon Cove dock gathering. Experience has taught me that deck maintenance and ant-inflammatory drugs are often closely related categories aboard a cruising boat.
happy hour at lagoon cove is the hightlight of every day there
After Happy Hour, we finally completed another project that had been sitting on our “someday” list for far too long.
OceanFlyer’s retired pennant now hangs inside the Lagoon Cove workshop alongside dozens of other cruising pennants left behind over the years by visiting boaters. The walls and rafters have slowly become a colorful collection of boating history, each pennant representing a boat, a crew and countless stories from up and down the Inside Passage.
oceanflyer’s retired ensign joins the ranks of many other cruisers
It felt fitting to add ours to the collection.
A small tradition perhaps, but one that quietly reminds you how many people, boats and journeys have passed through this special little cove over the years.