Ship ahoy!

Daddy brought his new 30' Hunter sailboat, Eagle Wings, home yesterday. I like it better on land than his other boat, but I have yet to see in the water. A few nice things about it (compared with the other boat):

• Running water
  
• Plenty of storage
  
• Wood floors (vs. soggy carpet)
  
• One more sleeping berth
  
• Doors that work
  

Today, around 8 a.m., Daddy told me to go out and help him get the mast off. Forty-two feet long and weighing well over 250 pounds, that thing is MASSIVE! It didn't take long to realize that we would need more than two people to lower it fifteen feet. So Bria, Cara, and Ryan came out, too. Daddy kept saying it would only be five minutes if we all worked together, but I think he was wrong. At any rate, it definitely took longer than that. We all inched the mast along until it reached the balance point. Around that time, Cherilyn stopped by to drop off a sweater Cara had left at her house, and she came down and helped too. Daddy was up on the boat letting it down, and everyone else was down below trying to keep the thing from falling down and smashing itself. We managed it, but by so little that we probably couldn't have done it without Cherilyn. She saved the day!