Hamartia Antidote
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So Ant, we launched on Wednesday and we're finally splashed for the season. It's always a hectic day getting the boat ready for this operation. De-winterizing it for about two weeks, changing the motor oil, the outdrive oil, the anodes, had to buy 3 new group 31 dual purpose batteries @beaucoup$ lol and a lot of other little nitty gritty prep items including the trailer registration had to be renewed, the boat registration is due in a week, the slip fees will take you to the poor house lmao and all sorts of other headaches. But once out there, it's well worth it. You should bring the Missus sometime and come spend the day with us, bro. We leave Salem early in the am and can either go north to Gloucester down the Annesquam River to Wingearsheek beach and beyond or for you, I'm probably guessing you'd enjoy it better if we went south into Boston Harbor. This time of year and the 4th of July coming up in less than a week, Boston Harbor is rocking smackdown with fireworks and tall ships and even military ships that come in and dock at the East port. One year there were a couple of Norwegian stealth frigates there as well as the USS WASP. That was fun.
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One of the most beautiful seacoast towns in MA, Marblehead.
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This is Misery Island and a place called Cocktail Cove lol. There are moorings you can go up to and attach a line to and hang out and chill for as long as you want. Do some tubing and partying and relaxing. On a weekday like today, there were hardly any boats. Other days, if you're not there by 6am, forget it. Keep cruising.
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And these buggers are all over the garden again this year lol.
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Wow!! Awesome looking boat Gomig!!
Do you park that in your driveway or put it in the backyard?? Trying to think of where I could put a boat that size. I could put it at the end of the driveway but it would be in the way. I guess part of the garden would have to go and i’d put it in the backyard.
Nice pics of the North Shore area too.
Sounds very cool! Now all I have to do is talk the wife into overcoming her bizarre innate fear of drowning. Maybe we’d have to stay within sight of land.
Definitely you are a lucky guy to have time to have a boat. An ex-boss of mine lived in Manchester-by-the-Sea and had a nice boat which she called the biggest unimaginable money pit ever...but she also said it was well worth every penny.
Forget the Boston skyline I’d rather see scenery than tall buildings, the airport, and big oil storage tanks.
Luckily the bunnies seem to not like vegetables. I had a problem a few weeks ago with some new critter figuring out how to get through my fence. I finally found out it was somebody’s dog. I would never have guessed in a million years a dog was interested in raiding a garden...but I spotted him. He could effortlessly leap over the fence. Chased him away and he hasn’t been back.