Living The Dream

For the past 10 days or so we have had rain squalls coming through.  Rains and blows and then sunny, then before you know it, rain and wind.   The boat has lots of nice rinses and I have gone out multiple times with soapy rags and scrubbed to take advantage of the rain showers.

Some times the dream has turned rather nightmarish.......

The lock on the sliding door broke when we came home from shopping with lots of cold stuff.  So there we were jiggling the lock with the key, checking all the hatches, taking some of the hardware off the sliding window in the galley, rechecking the hatches, all the while the cold stuff in the insulated bag is getting warmer and the frozen stuff is defrosting.   Is that a nightmare?   Once again, the Lord shinned on us and the lock worked.   Thank you again Lord!   Kirk then worked on the lock and Mr. Fixit did his magic with fixing and it has been working since.

The cover on the motor in the aft guest head came off and the motor drilled a hole into the waste line.   This was brought to our attention when we were getting ready to leave the boat and the bilge pump went off.  Never a good sign when a bilge pump runs!!  After investigation, the source of the leak was determined.   Yuk.   Do you remember the Monty Python movie line "he's got sh-t all over him"?  That was almost the case when Kirk disconnected the hose to fix the leak.  Gosh he is a good Mr. Fixit!!

We have push button locks on the cabinets.   They are now sticking.  Kirk showed me how he wanted them maintained and that has been one of my jobs.  Very tedious.  Unscrew the knob, remove the lock, clean the plunger with 3M pad, lubricate the locking mechanism and plunger with sailkote (a dry lubricant) and then put it all back together.   There are about 40 of the lovely latches on the boat.  I have done maybe half.

We did get the bottom of the boat cleaned and it is wonderful.   Kirk has been brushing the bottom with a long handled brush to remove the tiny shrimp that just love the bottom of the boat.  They are so nasty.

I cleaned the fan tails of barnacles, crabs, sea moss etc.   We had two oysters that had implanted themselves in the ridges of the wood steps on the swim ladder.   I had to chisel them out with a big screw driver.   They were about 1 1/2 inches long.  Oysters anyone?

Getting ready for our guests.