The family will arrive today and will return home tomorrow with Kourtney. What a shame – such great crew but school beckons her.
I was up early and planned the installation of the SSB. Buck took off early to explore the town by foot before the heat of the day and Kourtney finished the laundry – got to have clean sheets and towels for the Momma.
I took about 3 hours and temporarily installed the SSB – worked great but all the antenna wires were exposed – run across the floor under a rug and out the hatch and over the aft deck to the backstay.
I hen installed the spare water pump for the fresh water system. It did not work well at all. Just ran continuously and would build no pressure. We later found the accumulator bladder flat so we added some air with a found foot pump and the system would at least cycle after that.
We had lunch on board. Karen, Stephen, and Andy made a slow trip to the boat arriving about 2pm. Buck had made arrangements for a motel room for the night. The motion on the boat was lively when they arrived. What with the wind driven waves and the Saturday afternoon boat traffic. Stephen arrived feeling worn and ill before even stepping on the boat. His condition worsened immediately. He got real pale!! He and Kourtney then decided to get a motel room for the night – oh what a mess this was turning into.
When we decided to head for dinner we had to go to 2 motels to gather everyone up – that was about 45 minutes but else did we have to do tonight. We decided on a restaurant in downtown Charleston and I made a reservation while we were driving. When we got there we did not like the looks of it so we drove on. We ended up at the Brewery and smoke house. Fortunately they took us right away. Dinner was quite pleasant.
Afterwards we delivered everyone back to their respective motels and we returned to the boat arriving around 10 pm – whipped we all went to bed soon after that.
It was actually a very productive day.
I was up early and planned the installation of the SSB. Buck took off early to explore the town by foot before the heat of the day and Kourtney finished the laundry – got to have clean sheets and towels for the Momma.
I took about 3 hours and temporarily installed the SSB – worked great but all the antenna wires were exposed – run across the floor under a rug and out the hatch and over the aft deck to the backstay.
I hen installed the spare water pump for the fresh water system. It did not work well at all. Just ran continuously and would build no pressure. We later found the accumulator bladder flat so we added some air with a found foot pump and the system would at least cycle after that.
We had lunch on board. Karen, Stephen, and Andy made a slow trip to the boat arriving about 2pm. Buck had made arrangements for a motel room for the night. The motion on the boat was lively when they arrived. What with the wind driven waves and the Saturday afternoon boat traffic. Stephen arrived feeling worn and ill before even stepping on the boat. His condition worsened immediately. He got real pale!! He and Kourtney then decided to get a motel room for the night – oh what a mess this was turning into.
When we decided to head for dinner we had to go to 2 motels to gather everyone up – that was about 45 minutes but else did we have to do tonight. We decided on a restaurant in downtown Charleston and I made a reservation while we were driving. When we got there we did not like the looks of it so we drove on. We ended up at the Brewery and smoke house. Fortunately they took us right away. Dinner was quite pleasant.
Afterwards we delivered everyone back to their respective motels and we returned to the boat arriving around 10 pm – whipped we all went to bed soon after that.
It was actually a very productive day.
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