Day:274, Words:274

It's transition week in Øksfjord as the residents prepare their homes, cars and children for the coming winter. Today's task is to take the boat off the water and stick it in the garage for storage. A seemingly straight forward exercise, although I had never attempted it previously. I employed the help of a fellow immigrant to Øksfjord, who had also never attempted such a feat.

I reversed the car up to the garage and attached the newly accuired boat trailor. I planned the route to the harbour carefully so as to avoid any unecessary reversing with the trailor. To me, reversing with a caravan or a trailor attached breaks nearly all of the rules of physics. After a relatively stress free journey to the harbour, we placed the trailor on the boat ramp. We drove the boat to the ramp and attached it to the trailor. After several minutes of reversing, turning the wheel one way, turning the wheel the other way and reversing again, we managed to turn the vehicle in the right direction and drove carefully home. As we started to wheel the boat and trailor into the garage, there was a strange water swishing noise, which reminded me that we had forgotten to empty the boat of all of the seawater that was sitting in the bottom section.

With the boat now free of water and now suddenly a lot lighter, it was time to store it away for the winter. Of course the boat was about 14 cm too long. Suitcases, tables, bikes and sleds were moved around the garage to allow the boat to fit snugly into place.

 

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