Friday Funny 07/28 (Matchy Matchy)

Love the print.

Awkward Family Photos, it's real, and everyone must match!

Did you know that "matchy matchy" is an actual phrase? It describes too much of one pattern, color, fabric, or accessories. It's a fashion term for being too coordinated. 

It's a false sense of security.

If you have followed along with me, you've  watched how I've been trying to "dress" Denali Rose in a new matching outfit. Have I gone too far, and when should I stop because enough is enough? Will others look at her and say, "that's awkward".

When Bill gets a new device installed, I grab my scraps and whip up a new cover. So far, I have covered the cockpit compass, (not new, but needed a new cover), the new chart-plotter, and the new remote control to the devices in the cockpit. The covers not only protect against UV damage, but they also obscure the big B&G logo.

Cockpit compass

Cockpit chart-plotter

Chart-plotter cover

Remote controls

Cover

Of course, all of this is the same fabric as the new sail covers. 

Main sail cover

Mizzen sail cover

Now I'm working on the side weather-cloths. 

Installed for the final fitting, not quite finished, but almost.

I have one instrument on the cockpit bulkhead that doesn't have a cover yet. Since it doesn't have a very deep profile, I had to decide how I wanted to attach it to the front.

Don't worry about the inclinometer reading, we're listing to port because of the fuel tank and batteries on that side.

I think I will use a velcro dot to attach the cover.

Of course everything I make, I dress it up with the custom Denali Rose label.

You can make yours at Dutch Label Shop.

Just in case you wanted to know, we also have custom matching key chains. 😁

Front side

Back side

To make the picture complete when Denali Rose has all her new clothes on, we should don Carhartt shirts, and put the Carhartt collars on the cats, and pose for our family photo. Perhaps I should put the Denali Rose label over the Carhartt label.

Now we are all matchy matchy!

What do you think? Would this make a good Christmas card photo? "Happy Holidays from the matchy matchy Carhartt brown Denali Rose and her crew!" 

How about you? What are your thoughts about matching everything? Do you and your significant other dress alike, do you dress your children/pets to match? Do you match everything/anything to your car, boat, or house?

As always, we enjoy hearing from you, either here in comments or on our Facebook Denali Rose Sailboat page.

Friday Funny 07/21 (Dock Life)

Elsie and Gus

We could actually catch fish off of our dock, someone's child was doing it the other day, but would you want to eat it? Absolutely no.

Elsie and Gus checking out our dock finger.

We have been in the marina so long now, it feels like we might never get away. The good news is that all of the electronics that Bill has put into place, rewired, and turned on, have all worked flawlessly so far. 

We will leave! We have committed to a rondezvous with some friends at Glacier Bay, north of here.

I still enjoy watching the boats coming, and going, and of course it's a daily event. The commercial fishing season is in full swing, and the processing plant next to the marina is always busy. The boats come in with their catch, unload at the plant, sometimes come back to their slip for provisioning, maybe an overnight, and then right back out to work. A local tender, (larger ship that takes the days catch, into the processor, after off-loading it from smaller vessels, so the fishing boat doesn't have to stop fishing), said that they had 78,000 pounds of fish for the processor that day. That's a lot of fish.

It's really fun to watch the transient dock, you never know what might pull in. The other day we had a 110 foot power boat, and you could hear the bow thrusters maneuvering it around the corner, and up to the dock. Last night the largest (personal), sailboat I have ever seen came in. 

It was getting dark, and the cloud cover makes it kind of hard to see in the above photo.

160 foot sailboat, "Georgia"

Here'w one I took this morning on my way to the community center, to participate in water aerobics.

More photos of Heritage Harbor, Wrangell, Alaska.

A power catamaran headed out of the marina, off to have some fun!

We see eagles every day. They live in the forests around us.

Unlike winter, when every slip is full, there are quite a few empty ones now.

Can you tell, I'm grasping to get a Friday Funny out? If you've been following along with Denali Rose Sailboat on Facebook, you've seen some of my sewing projects posted. I'm in full-steam ahead, and every day is, "what can I complete now" mode. I just didn't take time out to write a post.

FYI, Oprah is in Southeast Alaska right now. We won't be seeing her in Wrangell though.

What projects are you doing? Would you want to meet Oprah?

As always, we enjoy hearing from you, either here in comments or on our Facebook Denali Rose Sailboat page.