Memorial Day Update

Well, just a little note to let you know what is going on with Iron Jack. It sits lonely in Cocoa, Fl while Jean and I continue to hold garage sales and pare down on life's accumulation of goods. We have had garage sales for the last 3 weekends and because we made the mistake of scheduling one on Memorial Day weekend we find it necessary to have another one. Everyone who might have been a buyer must have been at the lake, the ocean, the mountain or in their backyard with the BBQ grill going full blast. Hopefully NEXT weekend will see a lot less STUFF in the hangar.
Jeanne has sold her small cabin and has a sure thing on the sale of her home. Unfortunately my deal on my little airstrip has had a little fallout as the potiential buyer and his wife had a LITTLE trouble when they came and crash landed on the property to the north of mine. Really and totally destroyed the classic straight tail C-172. The good news is that for all the damage to the plane there were only very minor injuries, a large bruise on the wife's left forearm along with a small scratch, the husband was even luckier with 2 small scratches on his right hand. They are a nice couple and I do hope they continue flying. Now they have the excuse to get a little faster plane.
My brother, Fred is still checking on and keeping the boat clean and useable at the dock, while I keep making lists of equipment and plans to update the wiring and equipment. Following the weather on the laptop I see that Cocoa is at least 5 to 10 degrees cooler than Dallas. Hopefully we can get the airstrip sold and get to Florida by July. It's only May and Texas is in a heat wave--yuck. At least Cocoa will have a little onshore breeze to make it seem a little cooler. Enough to this for now, see ya later.

S/V Iron  Jack

This is the story of a Charles Wittholz designed 39' steel cutter sailboat based at the present in Cocoa, Florida.  Bill and Jeanne are the new owners and are at present adding, changing, modifying or doing it our way to get the boat ready for fall sailing in southern Florida and points south.  As with all boats everything needs to be checked and rechecked, spare parts ordered and stowed, systems checked and rechecked, changes made to electical and mechanical systems. It all takes time and hopefully not a great deal of money.  I have on previous boats maintained the KISS principal mainly because of the last letter of S (stupid).  I really should say ignorant as I DO learn, most of the times.  So feel free to follow our little adventure as we learn and do what many have done before and what many want to do NOW.