Monday Update

We still go with Friday's assessment.  This job was one we don't ever want to repeat.  Gary has nicks cuts and abrasions from trying to fight with old hose that didn't want to come out and new hose that was just as reluctant to go in.  We finished the majority and still have one hard run to finish where he will have to cut through walls to get access but we were tired and needed a break.

Saturday, found us putting the heads back together.  Sinks hooked back up and working, toilets flushing like little vacuums, that is until we found out that the pump out we had Thursday morning didn't pump anything out and our holding tank was still full.  Isn't life just great. 

We couldn't have it redone on the weekend because this is a  rack storage marina and they were super busy with little boats going in and out besides moving our boat from the slip to the fuel dock and back is a major production. It's like moving a house.  Remove water hose, unhook shore power, untie 7 lines, undo cable and get ole' Bessie with her arthritic old bones from the slip to the fuel dock.  So we made lots of hikes up to the marina bathrooms and drank very little water.  We also spent most of Sunday with the Mackie's relaxing.

Today we got a successful pump out, because Gary did it himself this time.  As you can imagine the dock hand who oversaw the last one was not really into it and they don't have a sight glass on their pump out.  Gary asked why today because that is really the only way you can tell when it is pumping and when it is done and the dock hand said "we talked about it, but we don't really want to see that stuff coming out", I totally agree in theory but in practice it just doesn't work! 

We went out into the barge canal and came back to our slip through the East entrance and saw 4 baby Dolphin swimming around and 2 Manatee lumbering up the canal.  We have seen more Manatee here than anywhere else.  Made it back into the slip but not as smoothly as we did on Thursday.  The starboard engine stalled and Gary couldn't get it to run.  Great, a problem for when we get back next week and things were going so well!!  

We decided to head back to Rotonda today.  Our paint for the dink won't get here until Wednesday so we reversed our plans. We will get the house buttoned up this week and return to the boat after spending Easter with the grands.  Then we will have a full week to get the painting done, the last hose put in and  the engine diagnosed. 

and..... we will get to see the shuttle launch if they don't postpone it again!!  YES!!