If you ask most boaters if they have a sewing machine on board the answer is NO.  But here on Last Call I have my sewing machine and it is getting used a lot.  This is not for creating beautiful things like quilts, but for making and repairing things on board.  I am not what you call a seamstress, but I can put together simple things.

So far I have created chair covers, grill cover, Propane tank cover and gas tank cover for the dingy.    I’ve made a skirt that goes around the bottom section of our upper deck, repaired screens and sewed Velcro on any number of things.

I looked like Mary Poppins one day carrying my quilted covered machine down the dock to help a friend put all new Velcro on her blinds.

It is amazing how many times I have dug it out of the storage under the quarter birth. Plus we’re too cheap to pay someone to do something we can do ourselves.   I guess it will go on the 6000 mile trip with us.