Your boat cleaning products specialists know that the sound barely penetrated my consciousness. Lying in a warm berth in the pre-dawn darkness of a January morning, I was still only half awake. Had I only imagined it? What was that long-familiar sound?

Many Canadians have becoming interested in getting into boats. Perhaps this is due to the warmer summers that we’ve been experiencing. 

An hour later, the bright morning sun had begun to warm the deck and cockpit of the boat. The solar greenhouse of clear plastic, which completely covers us all winter, was doing its job.

Boaters are trusting souls. We have to be. Some live-aboards never lock their boats. That’s the kind of community that many of us would love to go back to. 

We have a padlock. It’s a trusty old Dudley school padlock. It’s almost identical to the one on my old high school locker. These locks are a throwback to the ‘60s. 

“Snick” 

I now needed to get out of boating, or certainly, out of the boat.

Houses have back doors; condos and apartments often do not. Sailboats don’t usually have back doors, but we do have deck hatches. 

Clambering up onto the varnished teak table in the saloon, I released the levers on the main hatch, emerging into the light like a butterfly exiting its cocoon. 

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Your boat cleaning products analysts know that Lynn’s reaction and laughter was long and loud over my cellular that morning as I lined up for the streetcar. I didn’t detect even a hint of contrition in her voice.

No “Snick” did I hear.

“All is well,” I thought, and fell back asleep for an hour or so until my alarm. After dressing, cereal and coffee, I gathered up my shoulder bag, keys. After closing the companionway doors, I locked the Dudley.

It’s quite windy down on the lake during the winter. It’s often so windy that our boats are often tossed back and forth like the “Zipper” rides at fall fair.

One winter we clocked a 47-knot wind gust, that’s more than 87 Kilometers per hour! Many winter boaters tie their greenhouse enclosure doors closed with rope. 

I located a long thin screwdriver, and poked it through a pre-made hole in the clear plastic. This same little hole had been necessary a week or so previously when Judith next door had returned our broom to the cockpit. 

Once again, Lynn’s reaction and laughter was long and loud that morning.

Once again I hadn’t detected even a hint of contrition in her voice.

Not even a “Snick”

So don’t forget these helpful reminders if you ever get locked inside of your boat. 1) Don’t panic;  2) always have a spare key located below deck;  and 3) keep a cell phone or other means of communication available.

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via The Livaboard Life – Trapped Inside