We decide to take a break today and stay put so we can get
some things done on the boat....while trying to fix our sliding glass
doors we hear a thump....this is what we find (port side)....1,000 lb dead tree
across both bows of our boat laying on the bridle....ugh....
starboard side...
This is the first time we've had Zippy in the water since
having her motor worked on....
Thankfully all went well and Bob was able to get to the tree...
Not that it mattered....we couldn't move it....
So we call Tow Boat U.S. and within 15 minutes they were here....
The kid is wrapping the line around the stump now....
Finally, freedom!
Except for one last "thump" on the port side...
This thing was huge!
Off they go....
They dropped it off on the side of the woods with the other
debris....
Our sunset.....
Oh no, another issue found that was not done correctly by the place
where we got the motor serviced...they forgot to put the "safety retaining
ring" back on the motor...we tie a piece of line to it to keep the motor
from falling to the bottom should it let go for some reason...now we have
to get another one of those...Bob is not happy!
Well today didn't go as expected. However, we still got a lot done. Once we took care of the tree, we finished with the door (still not done but better), Bob changed the fuel filters and impellers out (good thing on the impellers because both of them had one vane missing....he found the one for the port engine, but not the starboard), I washed and waxed the port side of the boat and part of the inside of the cockpit...I also washed and waxed the window and doors entering the inside of the boat. It looks pretty good, I must say.
It seems like lately a lot of things have been going wrong on the boat....We had to rebuild our wind generator and when they sent it back to us they forgot to put a part back in the box so now we have to get it mailed someplace where we can pick it up....our starboard engine is giving us issues again, our auto-pilot was acting up on us so we mailed it to FL for them to fix, they couldn't find anything wrong so they put a new battery in it and sent it back to us....it still isn't working and they said we need to mail it back to them again......so in saying this, Bob and I have decided we are not going to the Bahamas this year....there are just too many majors things wrong when it comes to electricity....so we are headed to Key West for the winter. Bob will probably re-do the SB engine again there. In meantime, hopefully everything else will fall into place??!!??
