We spent this fall and winter working on our Marine Trader, Hemingway. We purchased this boat two years ago but it remained on the hard at Glades Boat Storage, on the Caloosahatchee River in central Florida, until we were both retired. The boat had not been splashed for eight years so she needed a lot of maintenance and tender loving care. We spent three months working on her in the boat yard and three months staining teak at Bonita Bills. Why does it take so long, you ask? We have many friends here that we visit and party with so it is not all work and no play. As Canadians, even working in a boat yard is fun as opposed to shoveling snow and scraping ice off the windshield. We visited the Everglades National Park by
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