Pink and Blue - Painting and Sewing

Recently,Anne and I read and discussed a number of posts on the Women and Cruising blog about how responsibilities among partners for the tasks aboard a boat are delegated.  Who assumes the traditional male or "blue" tasks and who assumes the traditional female or "pink" tasks.  The blog posts have provided a launching pad for conversations about how our responsibilities aboard C'est la Vie and ashore are divided.  Admittedly through our 10+ year relationship we have grown into accepting fairly traditional pink & blue responsibilities in our life ashore and cruising.  I'm not going to pass judgement or make any moral statements about our's or any other crew's system of delegating responsibilities.  I chose to begin this blog entry with these observations because on today's projects Anne and I reversed the the pink and blue roles.

I spent the day at the sewing machine.

In the image above I am working on a cover for the rail mounted grill that can be seen behind me to the left. In addition to making the grill cover, I finally completed the aft end of the mainsail boot (a project I started last fall.)  I used a green sunbrella to make identifying the end of the cover more easy and to add a bit of color to C'est la Vie's topsides.

Anne applied the second coat of primer and first top coat to the cockpit lockers...

and the port side salon locker/bench...

What a difference a couple coats of paint can make!  See June 4th & 5th post for some before images of this area.