so..... back to deltaville. the cars still work. the wifi still has the same password. hey, there's a new cafe in town! we did some mega cleaning and tom had a number of boat projects. we had originally planned to start heading south at the end of october but that has been bumped up to the middle of the month instead. tom will work the annapolis sailboat show for both cruising world magazine and waterway guide and then after that we have to be in hampton, VA by october 16, 2014 for the snowbird rendezvous. but that is far (not really) into the future. in the meantime, because we're leaving this area earlier than expected, there are a great number of things to be done to the boat so tom has gotten started on those. boat units are being spent right and left at an alarming amount! (for those who don't know, 1 boat unit = $1000. it just makes it easier to accept the inevitable. for example, $500 is only half a boat unit, which seems small when you can say only 0.5, right?)
we had a nasty surprise the other day when tom went over to talk to the marina office. apparently, he was told that our slip has been rented out from underneath us and that they had every right to bump us out in favor of slipholders with an annual contract, but that we could have any other empty slip in the marina, including one that is two slips from where we currently are! tom was so furious that he let it go that day, however, he went back the next day and said that the reason that we were on a month-to-month contract was that they would not give us an annual contract to begin with since there had been plans to build a travelift slip in our section of the dock. it would mean losing two slips and, apparently, the boats in the last two slips that were going to be taken had priority over us since they'd been in the marina longer. well, guess what? the plan for that travelift slip has been scrapped. besides, the electric meter is in our name. idiots.... none of it makes any sense except that someone doesn't have it all together. in any case, when we left the marina august 1, 2014 for cape charles, we took ALL of our lines with us, including the long storm lines. who knows what we will find when we get back in two weeks? supposedly, our slip was rented out starting august 1, 2014! and the people it was rented out to are from another part of the same marina. well, they can have any slip they want, too, until we leave, good grief... the whole thing just makes me want to push someone overboard. it may well be that when we go back, slip G-30 will no longer be ours for reasons i cannot fathom except that someone is being stupid and inconsiderate. as someone else told me the other day, it is good to have an opinion and to express it. i have NOT begun to express my opinion regarding this situation.
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