Wednesday March 27: Little Jobs and Laying Low

The north winds have made the last couple of days 'inside' days :-) Go outside only on need ....

But we're getting the little things finished up that need to be done before traveling.

First yesterday was to replace the ailing bilge pump in the front of the boat. It was moaning quite a bit when it ran which is indicating something is not quite right.

It's a great pump though. Runs every 2 1/2 minutes and checks to see if there is enough water to pump. It keeps the bilge nice and dry.

No problem - we have a spare one of those! Except the spare (brand new) didn't work :-(   Then I remember - it's a boat :-)  So off to West Marine on my bike while Steve continued to clean up the wiring for the pump. Let's hear it for computers!!

They were able to find the purchase date of 7/11/10. We purchased the extended plan for $15 so we had a $70 pump replaced for free - plus the $15 for the new extended warranty :-)  Now normally I don't believe in extended warranties but since we have burned through MANY of these pumps in the 7 years we've owned this boat - we learned. We're slow learners sometimes but not always!

My job for the day was to sew a bag (little gray bag next to dive tanks) for the dinghy fuel tank. It has rubber parts and sitting in the sun all day is just bad. 'Bout time I did this .....

Steve's been growing sprouts again - some for salads, some for stir-fry and some for (believe it or not): bread!










It will definitely be interesting to see how it is!!

Today I am FINALLY getting around to getting rid of a source of constant (or at least daily) annoyance.

When we originally decided to just cover the ruined wood with wallpaper, I experimented with what to use to keep the paper up. It's quite a heavy paper so I thought some type of glue might work.

My first piece went up behind the seating on the dinette - and it worked just ok. Not happy with it really so I then tried a heavy wallpaper paste and was much happier with the result.

But the first original piece just eventually curled at the seam and just was irritating. No fix seemed to work.

So today, I cut the irritating part out and will finish tomorrow. Supposed to do it today but changing the generator oil and filter just took us too long ......

Now we await the arrival of Peter and Cheryl on Surona (hopefully tomorrow). You may remember them - we traveled part of the Great Loop with them (and Selah), traveled the east Florida coast last year with them on Deja Vu and finally meet up with them for a short period of time on the Trent (we were on Guppy).

Sounds like it's going to be good times as they are going to join us as we travel up the east coast of Florida! We're very glad we can travel together as we just really have a lot of fun :-)