Crazy’s Adventures

Light work day

Boy it gets cold here quick! No wonder people clear out after Labor Day. Woke up to 54 degrees and a cold wind. When you don’t wear shoes and you’re drying a damp surface, that makes for cold piggy toes. Luckily the wind had dried most of the boat for me, so I was able to do interior work.

The boat is mine

My first day on the boat without my boss. I sleep in til 7am. Wash and dry the boat till noon. Miscellaneous chores. My boss texts me…how was your first day without me? I send him a video of me dancing on every part of the boat, to music he doesn’t listen to. Then I take CBC Joey’s replacement to dinner. As we sit at the bar and eat and talk..i feel like I’m sitting next to John Dutton. OMG! His side profile looks just like John Dutton! Ima try to keep my cool!

9-11-20

Notice the Weird reflection in the right of my photo looks like two towers

What a surreal feeling to have the first time ever being to New York, fall on the 19th Anniversary of 9-11. I sat on a chair in the middle of Time Square, to just soak in my surroundings. I sat there alone and quiet for a good hour. Every once in a while I’d hear a siren and imagined the pure fear and chaos that was happening in this spot back then.

The luck I have is amazing

My boss flies out in a few days for the city because it’s the end of the season. He’ll then travel around the US until the end of October, rejoining me in North Carolina. Then we’ll make our way back to Florida.

What a wonderful Boss

He tells me this morning…the season is coming to an end. I fly out day after tomorrow. You’ve worked so hard I want you to enjoy a day on your boat. So he took just me out on the water. We dropped anchor, listened to good music, I jumped into the ocean from the 3rd floor and swam, relaxed and had deep conversations about life. What a day!

Don’t know why I get Pedi’s

This was a dramatic day. CBC Joey has been at odds with his boss for a while…which I’m learning is typical in this industry. You live in such close quarters. The type of people that own yachts have no problem spending $10,000 to enhance the fun then complain about $50 spent on maintaining the boat. And we as captains/deckhands do not fit into the enhance fun category

If you ever leave me

Today my boss invited captain Billy’s boss out for the day. When we start out, it’s a little breezy and chilly, so they decide to sit inside, while I’m cleaning downstairs. He yells…in front of the guest..,Stacy if you ever leave me, I’m gonna have to propose, and put a huge diamond on your finger so you can’t leave me. I poked my head upstairs and said. “So you’re telling me I’m gonna leave with money!”

When you’re old, doin youngsters work

When your hands ring out a chamois 500 times a day…7 days a week..if it rains, probably double that in a day, and then your hands grip a scrub brush for the teak floors or the non skid deck, you find the tips of your fingers become numb, then your wrist aches, then it hurts to grasp things. You know you’re old. So I talked to people I know in different businesses…hygienists who all have it, friends who have had it, they say these braces help. So mine came in today.

Coulda been bad

My boss is a perfectionist…he’s learned that I am as well. I like my boat to look a certain way. I guess I scare him a bit. He opened up a bottle of red wine on the way home from a beautiful day

I’m preparing to dock. Fenders put away…lines arranged neatly on cleats. When I’m putting the fenders away I’m on the very front of the bow. That’s where the compartment is for fenders. I’m bent over lowering fenders into compartment. All of a sudden I hear oh shit and the boat goes into reverse. It was done smoothly, so it didn’t throw me to the floor..just threw me off balance and made me stop and look because obviously something happened. I look forward and we are about 6ft away from bumping into an anchored boat. We don’t hit it and continue on our path

Time here is almost over

I have made such wonderful friends here that feel like family. In about 12 days I leave this place never to see any of these wonderful people again. Gila, Captain Harvey, Captain Joey, Captain Billy, captain Russ, Captain John, dock master Lou his daughter Camille, sag harbor yacht yard employee Cecil who greeted me every morning and missed me when I was on vacation, Garrett, Queen D crew…walking through town and hearing someone say good morning Stacy is surreal. My boss making reservations for the winter slip in Miami where he hopes I will live while he spends time in homes he has around the U.S.