{"id":5354,"date":"2017-05-26T12:48:19","date_gmt":"2017-05-26T12:48:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rickcoraccio.com\/boat\/?p=5354"},"modified":"2017-05-26T12:48:19","modified_gmt":"2017-05-26T12:48:19","slug":"wake-up-ginger-lee","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rickcoraccio.com\/boat\/?p=5354","title":{"rendered":"Wake Up Ginger Lee"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>It’s mid May in 2017, time to unwrap our boat friend Ginger Lee<\/em>. This pleasingly warm and sunny morning makes me feel so good inside. Real tee-shirt weather, and it’s about time. I climb up to the fly-bridge and begin slicing away the white plastic shrink-wrap that has protected\u00a0this vessel\u00a0through the long winter. It falls to the side where I roll it up and throw it into my Jeep to be recycled at the dump.<\/p>\n

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On the fly-bridge.<\/p><\/div>\n

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Rolled up shrink-wrap.<\/p><\/div>\n

I feel a twinge of excitement. The waking process has begun, and that means there will be boating soon. Awesome!
\nI’ve done what I can inside the boat, such as installing new oil coolers, replacing broken windows, changing both engine and transmission oil and filters, replacing two spent batteries, and a dozen other things. Now it’s time to lavish my attention\u00a0on the exterior of the boat. Even though there’s a half-dozen vessels in front of me, all on jack-stands and all covered, it’s the time of year when things happen fast here at the Moby Dick Marina<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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Boats in front of Ginger Lee.<\/p><\/div>\n

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Robins nest on my trim tabs. I relocate it nearby\u00a0and the mother\u00a0quickly found\u00a0it.<\/p><\/div>\n

Each day that I come here to accomplish another task, there is one less boat in front of me, until one day, there’s a knock on my hull.
\n“Rick! You in there?” It’s Arion, my friend and co-owner of this great marina.
\n“Yes Arion. I’m just cleaning up”, I answer. The big man’s head appears over the transom; he’s climbed my step-ladder.
\n“We’re launching boats. You wanna be next?”
\n“Hell yeah,” I\u00a0gush.
\nHe must have anticipated my answer\u00a0because I can hear the clatter of the powerful tractor coming closer. John, the other co-owner at the controls\u00a0of the big John Deere, leans his head out and greets me with a smile and a wave.\u00a0It’s a good day.<\/p>\n

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Loading up.<\/p><\/div>\n

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John and tractor.<\/p><\/div>\n

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Moving towards the water. Arion on the left. Kenny on the right.<\/p><\/div>\n

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\nArion and John still do the bulk of the heavy work here. I like that. It’s one of the reason I love this place\u00a0and have been coming here for almost 15 years.
\nThey make it look so easy; no muss; no fuss; no drama; no problems. Before ya know it, Ginger Lee<\/em> is floating proudly in New Bedford Harbor. It is truly a good day.<\/p>\n

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She swims!<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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