The Halifax crew are busy bees doing the last minute things that always seem to come up when planning a trip.   The Captain had some important business to take care of in Corner Brook and yesterday left the other half of the Mount Pearl crew to finish up the Newfoundland preparations by herself.  Hmmmmm……….  The Captain is heading to Halifax from Deer Lake just as the last of the tasks was being completed on the Eastern side of the island of Newfoundland.   Was a very necessary preparation but one that Giovanni Caboto and his crew probably did not fret about.

Before he traipsed over to Corner Brook, the Captain gave stern orders to one crew member (who still can’t believe he got to “dart” over to her beautiful native hometown of Corner Brook instead of her) to “take care of those fingernails”.  By that he meant “get rid of them”.  Well… not in their entirety.  Pretty sure he meant lose the beautifully manicured lacquered neon pink/mango talons and trim them to a practical length.  A more “workable” length.   

Now, anyone who knows her, knows how dear her manicure is to her – to lose it to anything other than a blissful evening of nail chewing while engrossed in a thrilling novel or watching a spell binding movie is unfathomable.  Cut them off ??  So it became the last task, put off to the very end, procrastination at its best, wincing at each Snip Snip.  Sniff Sniff.  

Tested them out with a little knot tying.  Yep, more workable.  Even took before and after pics, but at the risk of losing our faithful sailing followers who are waiting to hear more about sailing, perhaps best to end this right here.  

Apologies.  Must head to Halifax to meet up with the Captain.  Promise to let him blog next about the excellent enhancements made to Come What May especially for this voyage. They were numerous, innovative, mind soothing, luxurious…..aka expensive.   BOAT = Bring On Another Thousand.

Edited by the Cap’n to include the photos. (shush, don’t tell) 😎