Thanksgiving to Lowes

 We had a nice motor to Lowes Coronado Resort for Thanksgiving. We passed the aircraft carries as usual but this time there were no big donuts as we call them. They put up a fence instead. It not only looks nicer it will help with sailing because it will not block the wind as much like the big black sausage tubes did.

We did pass the broken down cruise ship - it is said it can not get under the Coronado bridge as it is too high so it sits here instead of a good ship yard

The new fence for the aircraft carries

 Also on the way down we saw another Freeport. Turns out it was Windwalker. Buddy and Judy’s boat. We at the time of course did not know this or remember the fact that they are bouncers. They go from the Chula Vista marine to Lowes Coronado Resort by season.

 We then went to our 90 or 100 ft slip! It was at the end of the Lowes slips on the harbor (South Bay) side so we had a great view and were not by all the hotel action (main entrance) so it was real cool.

Looking out the stern of our boat from the slip

 We also saw Tom who was washing a large yacht next to us. He came to our boat by request one time. We had gone to Downwind Marine and talked to Chris about having someone talk to us about varnishing teak. We had no experience with it. Chris recommended Tom and so we had him come by. He was very informative with lots of experience and helpful. This time he came aboard and visited and we showed off what we have gotten done. I don’t think he was too impressed but we are not pros like him. He was kind and he even gave use some more pointers.

The last day we remembered that Windwalker came over to Lowes in the winter so went  over and vested with Buddy and Judy.

We also visited  Bill and Jerry on the 32’ Westsail.  Jerry was working but Bill was there.

 In an earlier sailing Lowes post we explained all about Lowes Resort so I will not go into it here.

 The weather was great as it is fall so the temperatures were mild but sunny and not too windy. Got in the pool etc.

We did get a picture of a gondola ride. They were out as there are several gondolas. I even saw one late at night and it was cold then.

This was all about R and R so we did nothing but relax. As usual we do not do any boat work on this type of trip or anchoring. It is all R and R.

We like the benches at the point but it was a bit cold for sitting too long. Kinda windy spot at times.

We did hire a pump out service because we removing the engine and they came (have done a pup out twice so far on the service ) but did not get much out so we used the pump out cart pump here and it works fine but it was not something we wanted to do. Debbie called them and let them know we were not pleased. They come by every three weeks.

You can see the cart there.

Debbie cooked Thanksgiving dinner on the boat. This was our first time using the oven.

  Debbie had ordered pans for the oven cooking but they did not get delivered in time so we got some tin foil pans. They worked fine.

We had green beans and sweet potatoes and gravy and dressing over some veggie burgers. Also some cranberry sauce and mashed potatoes, I mashed.