Wednesday September 26: The Work Continues!

We're at a very nice dock here at Wayfarer's Cove Marina. Some shade throughout the day is nice as the weather seems to be abnormally warm for this time of year.

Highs in the 80's for the next 3 days - no rain until, of course, the weekend. For us, it doesn't matter but it's sad for folks around here that work during the week and then come the weekend, not so nice weather. I remember those days .......



It looks like the yard will pull us out tomorrow. We're still not exactly sure where the water is coming from but pretty sure it is coming in from within the keel. So whether it is coming around the shaft tube or through the shaft tube (holes in it), the challenge will be to decide how to stop this water from entering the boat.

These old Taiwanese-made boats can have just about anything in the keel! Seems that when the boats were being built, leftover junk pieces of metal were thrown into the keel and it was then filled with concrete. But that doesn't mean Yesterday's Dream was made this way. So I think we're going to drill a hole into the keel to find out what exactly is in there - should prove to be interesting.

In the meantime, Steve continues working on the outside of the boat doing normal maintenance. Today the job chosen was to clean all of the stainless rails. It's a long process of painting this goopy stuff on, let it dry and then clean it off by scrubbing with water. Sure looks good!

Matt and Fozzi came out for dinner last night (Wendy is in Ohio on a work related trip) so we could go back with him to pick up Wendy's car to use while she's out of town. Thanks, Matt!! :-)

So since we had a car this morning we drove to Oriental (been there by boat but never by car) seeking out a place for breakfast. Found a decent place right on the main street of town.

The road there goes right by the Neuse River - it was as flat as could be - amazing. One of the guys that works here commented that he's been in 80 foot waves on the ocean and 12 foot waves on the Neuse River - he said would take the 80 foot ocean waves any day compared to the ones on the Neuse River.

A couple we met at Dowry Creek said something similar. They and their boat are from Long Beach (they had the boat shipped to the east coast) where they boated on the Pacific all the time. When they arrived here and boaters were hesitant to go out on parts of the ICW if the waves were more than 3 feet, they thought perhaps the east coast boaters were just a bunch of wimps! They discovered it's not the height that makes the waves so bad but rather how fast the waves follow one another.

While Steve was outside, I was inside making bags. I have found that I really like having shade screens, flybridge plastic and misc canvas pieces it their own bag. Guess it seems like we are more organized that way :-)

Plus we'll change where things are stored based on the condition of the shade screens and plastic after sitting for 2 1/2 months. These will all go under the flybridge storage area on top. Stuff under there seems to keep dry. Lifejackets will move to the storage area under the flybridge furniture.

One of these days we'll get this boat exactly the way we want it!