We had a pretty easy day today. We were down to 15 gallons of water in my 80 gallon tank so I took the dinghy to the dock and filled the 6 gallon Jerry cans up and brought it back. I have 3 jugs so 3 trips made it 54 gallons.
This afternoon was the BIG Thanksgiving feast/potluck at the park pavilion here. Cruisers bring something to share and the CLODs bring the Turkeys and ham. CLODs are Cruisers living On Dirt now. It is all volunteer and they really make the feast happen.
It was a great turnout, met some new people and I'm still stuffed. The only things missing were no mashed potatoes or Pecan Pie!! I've got to have a Pecan pie so I'm heading to the Publix tomorrow to get one. A man has got to have goals, then my feast will be complete.
Hey that is all I have on the agenda for tomorrow. Love this Velcro Beach.
Thursday, November 24, 2016
Tuesday, November 22, 2016
Bored -- not any more!
Well the boredom ended last night after dinner. We went to the Riverside Cafe just on the other side of the bridge here for dinner last night. A nice easy dinghy ride. Dinner was fine for that kind of Sports bar Atmosphere but oh the ride home. Now I did not have any alcohol so we can't blame that but as we left an accident occurred. We were at the dinghy dock but had to run through a fairway of medium power boats to get out. Now it is dark with limited lighting. I had to spin the dinghy around to get out and just as I straightened there is a power boat with his transom up and the prop just out of the water. It was too close and I caught the prop and punched a 1.5" hole in the bow tube. Now this is why you want a RIB (Rigid bottom inflatable). The tube deflated almost immediately but because of the fiberglass hull we were floating just fine and motored back to our boat. It was scary in the dark but no problem. We pulled he motor off the dinghy and raised it in the davits to be sure it wouldn't sink overnight.
This morning I pulled the dinghy up on deck to repair and the damage and it did not look too bad. The cut was only 1.5" long but between a D-ring and a tube seam. My patch kit which I have 2 of was no good. The adhesive in the one kit was gummy and the other kit all the solvent had left the adhesive and it was hard. I tried to locate sone Toluol which is the solvent in the adhesive and could only find a 5 gallon barrel at Sherwin Williams -- need maybe 2 ounces. I found that Xylene will also work as a solvent but the drying time is longer.
Vic on Salty Turtle going to Lowes so he picked up a quart for me.
It was not ideal but a test patch looked okay so I tried it. Tomorrow will be the test when I inflate it.
Grrr this dinghy has been so air tight since I've had it I hope it still is.
Needles to say with no dinghy today we entertained ourselves otherwise -- like signed up Karen for Obama Care in 2017. Current plan won't be offered and what is which is only one plan through Blue Cross and Blue Shield is outrageous -- we will treat it as catastrophic coverage because as a normal health plan "it is criminal".
This morning I pulled the dinghy up on deck to repair and the damage and it did not look too bad. The cut was only 1.5" long but between a D-ring and a tube seam. My patch kit which I have 2 of was no good. The adhesive in the one kit was gummy and the other kit all the solvent had left the adhesive and it was hard. I tried to locate sone Toluol which is the solvent in the adhesive and could only find a 5 gallon barrel at Sherwin Williams -- need maybe 2 ounces. I found that Xylene will also work as a solvent but the drying time is longer.
Vic on Salty Turtle going to Lowes so he picked up a quart for me.
It was not ideal but a test patch looked okay so I tried it. Tomorrow will be the test when I inflate it.
Grrr this dinghy has been so air tight since I've had it I hope it still is.
Needles to say with no dinghy today we entertained ourselves otherwise -- like signed up Karen for Obama Care in 2017. Current plan won't be offered and what is which is only one plan through Blue Cross and Blue Shield is outrageous -- we will treat it as catastrophic coverage because as a normal health plan "it is criminal".
Monday, November 21, 2016
Boring Boring
Well the "Velcro Beach" has taken control so the days are going to be boring a while -- thus I probably won't post every day for a while.
Yesterday was just shopping for groceries, Getting my scuba tank filled, and a little West marine action. A great big thanks go out to John and Madeline on Chanceaux for giving us the transportation in their rental car for those activities.
We visited on the vessel YoLo yesterday afternoon - evening with Steve and Molly. YoLo stands for "You Only Live Once". They are big friends with "Cookie Monster".
Today was a work day. Karen went off with some women she met last night with a girls day out -- Walmart, Walgreens, lunch, etc.
I changed the main engine's fuel filter and oil, and oil filter, and was going to change the Seawater impeller but ended up just inspecting it -- no cracks -- and replaced the o-ring seal. Doesn't sound like much but it was a lot of work and I didn't have any difficulties other than no matter what preparations you make it is ALWAYS a messy job.
We had to untangle our lines from the mooring ball which proved difficult and I have a couple of cuts from the barnacles under the ball, and Cookie Monster had a friends Catamaran raft up to them and helped handle the dock lines. We are now three vessels on the one ball. Vic called and a friend of theirs was coming in to an unattended boat and they asked that I help with the lines since they were still out at the grocery. No problem.
We expect just a relaxing evening and no visiting tonight. We are whipped and bored.
Yesterday was just shopping for groceries, Getting my scuba tank filled, and a little West marine action. A great big thanks go out to John and Madeline on Chanceaux for giving us the transportation in their rental car for those activities.
We visited on the vessel YoLo yesterday afternoon - evening with Steve and Molly. YoLo stands for "You Only Live Once". They are big friends with "Cookie Monster".
Today was a work day. Karen went off with some women she met last night with a girls day out -- Walmart, Walgreens, lunch, etc.
I changed the main engine's fuel filter and oil, and oil filter, and was going to change the Seawater impeller but ended up just inspecting it -- no cracks -- and replaced the o-ring seal. Doesn't sound like much but it was a lot of work and I didn't have any difficulties other than no matter what preparations you make it is ALWAYS a messy job.
We had to untangle our lines from the mooring ball which proved difficult and I have a couple of cuts from the barnacles under the ball, and Cookie Monster had a friends Catamaran raft up to them and helped handle the dock lines. We are now three vessels on the one ball. Vic called and a friend of theirs was coming in to an unattended boat and they asked that I help with the lines since they were still out at the grocery. No problem.
We expect just a relaxing evening and no visiting tonight. We are whipped and bored.
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