Quincy Dane is an 8-year old pure bred Great Dane who lives on a cruising sailboat (currently in Panama) with our growing kitty. She’s just back a month long stay at a kennel in Panama City and she got more than she bargained for upon her return.
After one of our roughest passages (ever) to the first marina on the pacific side of Panama and knowing we would need to get through the Panama Canal and then haul out very shortly afterwards, we made the decision to put Quincy Dane into a highly recommended kennel in Panama City. As life would have it, she stayed there Quincy Dane came home from the kennel but things were not as she left them nor as comfy. First, the kitty is still here. But second, there’s this thing in the middle of the salon that doesn’t seem to move and Quincy + the family have a very tough time getting between it and the mast. Hmmmm-
The bigger problem for Quincy Dane is that she came back to the boat on the Caribbean side of the Canal, where it has rained nearly every day…sometimes several times per day. And when I say rain…I mean rain so hard you can’t see the boats behind you in the marina kind of rain. This kind of rain gets through our three large (good quality) tarps and makes most of Quincy’s various sleeping spots wet. Her princess couch on the bow and her double mattress couch in our second cockpit both get soaked, so her only real option is the cushioned spot in the cockpit but it’s dry most of the time. She will love it when she gets her salon spot back, but she needs to wait on the engine to go back in first.
I know she misses all of her dog friends, but she’ll see them again before we leave Panama the final time.
Here’s last week’s post with some pics of Quincy at her kennel: Quincy’s Corner: Vacation’s over Quincy!
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Lucky all of u. Beautiful background to outside pics when dry. Glad the Quincy is home again home again. Wish Oreo could verbalize. Maybe not.
Just read aloud to Dad and we both had good laughs.