Its Monday and Melissa is back at work. The past few weeks have been 7 to 8 hours of meetings solid. We have a few new employees, and bringing them up to speed plus the regular work load has made work days a bit nutty and a little long.
Melissa was explaining last week to co-workers that working from the boat means sometimes we are underway during the day. Her new headset doesn’t let background noise through – so people had no idea that sometimes we are going place to place while she is in meetings. No background engine noise at all. So unless we are going over big waves and she is swaying to and fro on video – no one even knows we are underway. Dave can work while underway too – despite being at the helm. The boat moves ~5 miles an hour. So he can easily take conference calls and navigate at the same time. We are more tied to the tides than anything else. We need to calculate the currents to make sure we can make headway on our path, and we decide the timing of departure/arrivals based on that more than anything. That having been said, Dave has been taking a lot of half days off so he can just chill while underway or once we reach a new bay he can explore in the dingy. Mostly Dave single-hand without help - unless we are pulling away from/into a dock in tricky conditions (think high wind or strong currents). He likes to have help anytime we are docking, anchoring, or snagging a mooring buoy. But those are all “nice to have’s”. We chat about schedules to make sure Melissa isn’t booked in meetings when Dave might need her to dock or anchor, but only because its better that way – not because its essential.
At 11am, Dave pulls up the anchor and we head for Blake Island. We arrive at 2pm. Theoretically Dave can pick up the mooring buoy by himself, but its likely to take more than one try, so Melissa helps out – arriving 5 minutes late to her 2pm meeting.
Dinner was BBQ steak and macaroni salad. Mmmm.