The Week in Review...

Normally we don't have a lot of news to impart, but lately, exciting things are happening.

Sue rowing to Jubilee

We placed Jubilee in the water on Saturday, 6 June.  The delay was because of Pixie's on-going problems with radiated tissue on the right side of her face.  Many hyperbaric oxygen treatments and many trips to the West Chester Oncology equate to less time to spend preparing Jubilee for the water.

It was a windy day and the tide was running the wrong way but Sue was able to row to Jubilee for us to place the dinghy on the bow.

Finishing the changing of the duck bills

We decided that we would use the racing sail for the WSPS Cruise which will begin on 20 June, so Don needed to change all the connectors for the mainsail. That is, to remove the hardware from the Dacron mainsail and add it to the carbon one.

Another item that he deemed necessary to replace were the "duck bills" in the vacuflush system.  This operation tends to be somewhat smelly and he really didn't need my assistance.

So here we go down the Chesapeake Delaware Canal headed toward our summer marina Green Point Landing

 

off of Worton Creek.  Notice the lovely color the Summit Bridge is now painted... and some traffic on the Elk River.








The real story is how our Pixie is doing.  She had surgery on 2 June; an examination on the following week and the stitches removed on 16 June.  The skin didn't stay closed up on her face and because of the radiated tissue, it pulled away from her jawbone once again.  The good news is that she has developed healthy tissue that is connected to her jawbone inside her mouth; just the outside has slipped away.  We are bathing her twice a day and administering an antibiotic ointment to the affected area.  Her hyperbaric treatments will continue and we are hoping to close this area soon.

Sitting with Dad in his "easy chair"