Wednesday November 1: Making Real Progress!!

How great it was to pull into Driftwood Marina today and see Yesterday's Dream sitting up off of the ground and stabilized by 6 jack stands!!

It was only a couple of days ago that the boat was not sitting on the ground since hurricane Irma steamrolled over Marathon and the rest of the Florida Keys.

After spending the last few weeks on the west coast it was definitely good to be back to Florida.

The cabin looked great! Quite a bit of mildew on the teak trim throughout the cabin but none on the wallpaper so that was a win.

Where to start?

First use the small Honda generator to charge the batteries (after filling with distilled water). There is some issue with the battery switch but we saved that for another day.

The biggest priority was to get out the water that had been sitting in the bottom of the boat since Irma.

The water had been in the front of the boat because of the way the boat sat bow down, leaning to the starboard.

Once the boat was picked up and leveled the water ran to the back of the boat and came up to a level several inches above the bottom of the engine.

The marina had a pump which we used to pump the water overboard very quickly.



It was pretty easy to see the change in water level!

Both the oil and the transmission fluid will be drained and replaced just to make sure that water did not make it's way into either the engine or the transmission.











Lots of work to replace the front railing but the pieces/parts are all there so that will at least make it easier to do. And Shelly (marina owner) did find the railing from the flybridge so that was a definite win as well!!

There are still many boats right across from us that still need to be picked up and blocked.

Marathon itself is getting better but still a huge amount of debris that needs to be hauled away.

We'll stay here working on the boat until Tuesday when we return to California for a couple of weeks.

The goal is to have the boat ready to launch the day before Thanksgiving!!