When I had the GB42 sitting out back with a clean bottom and new fuel filters I would get a bit itchy in the feet. Why all that work on the boat and us not going anywhere was usually due to "first world" problems. When I finally realized I just really did not want to spend a big amount of time chugging around at 8 knots and "working on my boat in exotic places," I sold the boat. If I had it now, I could see myself thinking where can we go and get off the boat and enjoy ourselves at each stop without some CV19 related issue rearing its ugly head? The smaller boat now hanging out back and NOT collecting marine growth, but still with clean fuel filters, actually relieves some of that "I got to use the boat" stress. It could hang there for months and be just as ready to go as it was from the first day of the hang time - it sees a lot of me when in the lift. THE hurricane has occupied a LOT of our time and resources for 23 months, but now that we are done with that, heart attack summer weather is here, and I am not too interested in sitting trapped in our air conditioned small downeast cabin just to "be on the boat" for a night or two. I can handle zipping out to the barrier island for the day and jumping in the waist deep water I can anchor in and enjoying the "scene," but I need to be home sleeping in my cool bead rather than listening to the generator running the AC all night when it is "feels like" 105 outside. We'll get out and spend nights on the boat when fall and winter and spring boating season arrives here, maybe following my brother's GB42 around, at which point we may still need the AC at times, but one can at least emerge from the cabin without soaking the clothing in sweat. So covid is not having much impact on our boating due to the fact we don't do much this time of year.
