Ahh a lay day

A lay day is pretty much a day you don't do anything. Just eat and drink and soak up the local color.

The day started that way. I puttered around the new dinghy and applied a coat of "new skin" from ISland Girl. Then went to the beach and walked around. Got to dip those toes in the Atlantic.

Beach was crowded with kids from UNC Wilmington. Man I wish someone had paid my way through school in a town like this. They don't know how they have it made at this age.

BAck on the boat I had some lunch of Robert's famous chicken salad and then relaxed watching the young kids play on the sail fish and other small sailing dinghies all sponsored by the local yacht club.

It was enjoyable until about 3pm when the call went out "no water!". Karen couldn't rinse he dishes.

Well it looked like the pickup tube plugged again but hadn't. While looking at the shelf with the pump I noticed it all wet. Then I saw water coming out of the top of the pump. Great.. Investigation showed a diaphragm had burst. I replaced that with some difficulty because of all the boat traffic rocking the boat. Still it did not pump. Further investigation showed some debris in the pump filter but after that was cleaned it still didn't work.

The suction from the pump felt weak so I replaced the valves. Now it works Yippee... Now I need to order some new spare parts.

Dinner was just leftovers. Jim and Barb came over at 7:30pm to try to take the Farkle championship away from me.. Well they did. Everyone won a game tonight except me -- Boo Hoo.

Just before they left thew forecast cold front arrived. A dry one with no rain but lots of wind. Guess I won't sleep soundly tonight

Hopefully I'll be able to enjoy a real Lay Day tomorrow.