Hog Cay, Ragged Islands, Bahamas

 Another busy day!

In the morning, we went over to the southern little beach to retrieve the piece of plywood/tabletop that had gotten washed ashore there during Hurricane Michelle.  It's in rough shape but beggars can't be choosers out here!  We removed all the nails and carefully got it on our dinghy. 

Slowly took it over to the cruiser hut.  Maxine had sent some 2x4's and nails/screws over yesterday for us to use to rebuild the table.

 

We put it all together - after lunch we came back with Jerry & Donna to get the table back usable.

 Jerry and Duane doing some measurements.

And then they just proceeded to build the support legs.

  

 

Chris from Solaris joined in to help.

 

And Bob from Two of a Kind joined as well!

 

Support legs complete, tabletop was attached.

Finished table....very sturdy but not very pretty.  It will be perfect for loading up with "auction" items for Saturday's Valentines party. 

 

 That all done, we were back to the boat for a rest....and later we heard a welcome shout from outside.  Lori from "42" was there for a visit.  We had given her our old jib to use to make bags and such.  As a thank you, she made me a custom bag out of our sail components!

 

 

It's absolutely lovely and creative!  She used the sail cloth itself, the rope was from the leech line imbeded in the sail (I think) and she polished one of the brass "hanks" that hold the sail to the forestay to use as a closure inside the bag.  She even included a piece of the sail where we had done the herringbone stitch to repair it as a memory of those hours of stitching before we decided to replace the sail!  So sweet of her! 

 

The tag says it all - "MADE BY LORI WITH LOVE & THE OCCASIONAL SWEAR WORD!"