So much for our day of rest.
Posted by – April 15, 2010
While I was working on the dinghy outboard this afternoon the generator fell overboard. Luckily it was chained up so it came out quickly. I tore it down and sprayed a can of corrosion block in all the right places. At least I hope they were the right ones. It’s not starting yet but I’m confident it will. The dinghy fuel tank still has some funky gas. I though I could filter it and run through it but it looks like I’m going to have to throw it out. I broke the oarlock on the dinghy rowing us over and Jen dropped our inverter in the bilge to round the day out.
We did just have a nice shower at the yacht club and we just found a cool little park to have lunch in one day. It’s nice being here. Now if our equipment would cooperate everything would be great.
The generator has been taken apart and cleaned. Crossing fingers it will start.
Posted by – April 15, 2010
And the bad luck continues
Posted by – April 15, 2010
The Honda generator took a swim this afternoon.
Finally catching up.
Posted by – April 14, 2010
We got our taxes done and put our student loans off for a while today. We picked the car up and brought it over to the anchorage. We stocked up on supplies while we were out. The toll is $4 to get out here and groceries are crazy-expensive. The car’s full of stuff that we need to put on consignment but that can wait a few days. We got some website work done as well, both for clients and a bit here. The site’s slowly improving. Hopefully we’ll have a few down days now that we’re caught up on our non boat obligations.
The dinghy outboard needs attention tomorrow and I have to hook up a solar panel that we finally found a proper connector for. Our neighbour, Billy, let us borrow a couple
Pardey books so we have some reading to get into.
Anchor watch
Posted by – April 13, 2010
We went to bed early tonight and just woke to the sound of a boat that squeezed into a spot way too close to us today dragging across our anchor chain. They’ve drug anchor almost into us. The wind’s shifting so the anchor watch begins. That’s a crappy iPhone photo but you get the idea, they’re about 10 feet away.
Enjoying a great day at Boca Grande. Shrimp and Spanish Mackerel feast tonight.
Posted by – April 13, 2010
Making Boca Grande a short time home. Quiet anchorage. Picnics ashore.
Posted by – April 13, 2010
We made a huge list of things that need to be done before we leave Boca Grande for the Dry Tortugas. There were a lot of mishaps yesterday. We need to get back in the groove of sailing by going for short runs.
