SlideMoors & Update on Building Our House

This week Eagle's Wings moved to our new dock so that Ron Parr
Marine could install SlideMoors.

 
What the heck are SlideMoors?  Our stern cleat ties tight to a slide mounted on an aluminum track secured to the piling.  A second slidemoor system keeps the bow tight against another piling. To add a SlideMoor for the bow, Ron had to move a piling away from the dock.  

As the tide comes and goes, the boat remains tight against the pilings as it moves up and down. Click  SlideMoors if you want to learn more.  The SlideMoor system is popular here in Punta Gorda.  In Hurricane Charley, boats secured with the system fared better than those secured in other ways.

Of course, Charley didn't generate much of a storm surge and people here steadfastly believe that a storm surge as high as Ike's surge can't happen here.  As one who has looked out on the vast expanse of  Galveston Bay and then up at Ike's high water mark on old Jimmy Walkers pilings, I am not convinced.
So we will take additional measures to secure Eagle's Wings as we move along through the hot, hot summer.  Mainly, we keep our insurance paid up!

 Our house number plaque ordered over the Internet by Joanne arrived this week. We hope to have it mounted on our new house early September when we move in.  This week cabinets arrived. The outside was painted. The floor was prepped for tile. Some of the crown moulding was installed. The sewer was connected. a landscaper proposed a plan for plants and trees.  The A/C should be running next week.  Click the Building Our House link on the left and scroll down to see the latest photos.  Stay tuned for progress!