A Work Day

Weather: Light wind < 10 knots; mostly sunny, temp range 73 to 81 degrees

Comment: We’re still on the hard! We were scheduled to be splashed yesterday, but Bobby Hardy, the fiberglass guy still has some work to do. We’re hoping for a splash on Monday.

Today was a significant workday. Here’s the list of tasks that were accomplished:

• Laundry
• Provisioning
• Change oil in Nissan
• Replace gear oil in Nissan
• Clean generator air filters
• Change oil in generator
• Remove brown stains from hulls
• Wash hulls
• Clean and lubricate steering quadrants
• Clean hydraulic box and hose fittings, evaluate leakage
• Return rental car

Gary was up first, but Bobby Hardy, the fiberglass guy, was already at work. Gary, in need of a news fix, walked to US 1 and found a box from which he purchased the Miami Herald. Along the way, he found an unopened bottle of Beck’s Beer. He cleaned it up and put it in the cooler. It will make a nice treat later in the day.

Before attending to the chores listed above, we breakfasted at the Keys Fisheries. It was a delightful morning and the breakfast sandwiches were very good.

We attended to our chores in an orderly fashion, and by about 1800 hours, all of our tasks were completed. We are only waiting on the fiberglass guy to finish. If there is a hydraulic leak it is very minor. After cleaning the fittings, the leak did not resurface, or if it did, it wasn’t visible yet. We’ll keep an eye on it tomorrow.

Gary is working pretty hard to convince Anna Marie to sail to the Bahamas. She is still very reluctant. I believe she was determined to go until we took Jeffrey sailing on that blustery day a couple of weeks ago. She got spooked. We’ll keep talking about it, but I’m certainly not going to force her to go!

We had wings at the Overseas for dinner. The Hoochie Koochie Man was setting up (see earlier reports) but we were bushed. We headed back for the boat and called it an early night.