We are eating away all our food so we don't have a lot to take off the boat when we leave, i.e. we are eating out a lot.
We met James Swan today, an Australian solo sailor (about our age) who is traveling the world. Incredible independent sailor with many stories. We ate dinner together a second night at Venture Restaurant and didn't stop talking all night. Hopefully he'll contact us when he gets to New England.
Today was fixit day. Drew repairing the bow light that smashed when we hit the side of the lock at Great Bridge Lock. I patched the patch that is leaking on the dinghy, Tweety. We bought a new dinghy at the Miami boat show, but of course it's been delayed for several months and we don't have it yet. Here are pictures of how to do a patch.
First you put soapy water on the area where you think the hole is. Small bubbles will come out of the hole where the leak is and thus shows where to put the patch. I had to rip off the old patch that wasn't working. I cut a yellow patch to match the size of the one that was peeled off. The pin hole is right in the center of the gray circle.
Ran Mazu at the dog park, read my book Old Jules by Mari Sandoz, a story of settling Nebraska in the 1800s like my Swiss relatives did from the Jura area of Switzerland.
Not sure if we'll have wifi tomorrow in Mathews, VA. We'll be up and out by 8 am for the 30 mile trip (about 5 hours.) I know I need to take more pix of Mazu - she's more popular on this blog than anything else I write about. She is feeling much better and happier now that we've learned to leave her down below when we're moving.
No comments:
Post a Comment