Delivery Captain On Board

YB and GF left the boat yesterday to fly the rest of the trip. Delivery Capt came aboard. Long time friend of YB and a frequent in Sag Harbor. Very nice man.

But boy the difference in traveling with YB and delivery captain are crazy. His goal is just to get the boat there. He’d drive all day and all night stopping only to fuel up. When he brought me from Sag Harbor to River Dunes in Oriental I didn’t go to bed, I just dozed on the couch, to be available should he need anything.

Last night, we arrived to our marina at 6:30. I have the credit card for dinner, so I hooked the boat up to power and water, decided to shower, and take him to dinner, then spray salt off after. So we do all of that and I finish at 9:30pm. I inquire on when he wants to depart in the morning. He says 5am. I clarified, boat ready to pull out at 5am? He says no, be on deck at 5am. He wanted to check all fluids himself.

So I am up at 4:45am, Open engine room undo generator cover so that everything is ready for him to check all fluids. He comes up a little after 5. I said, engine room is ready for your inspection. He says, whoa, whoa whoa, cup of coffee first? He sits down with his cup of coffee and starts telling me stories. I mean I love this dude, but I could still be sleeping right now! Then he has a cigarette. He finally makes his way to the engine room. When he comes up I ask if I should disconnect power and start generator. He says sure. So I do. “Shall I start engines?”,I say. He has to have another cigarette and tell more stories. So I give up on heading out and start doing log maintenance on my computer. We finally left at 6:20am. I have no idea how many hours we’ll be underway today…but man these are long boring days.