Sunday Nov, 8 water pump fix, rain

I missed the VHF channel 72 Cruises Net because I didn't switch it off "tri-watch" (didn't know how) and the program was incessantly interrupted with boats calling Lion's Bridge for an opening.
  Cooked a good breakfast before starting on the water pump replacement of the rubber diaphragm that we just replaced last year.  The symptom was water leaking as the pump worked filling up the bin with water over time and then bailing out the bin.
   First: take apart the whole salon area to reach the water pump in a bin below the port seats.
  2nd:  Go upside down in the bin and unscrew the motor pump and unhook electrical wires.

You can see the motor is right up against the wall and very hard to remove the 4 screws.  

 Drew decided he'd drill new holes (went upsidedown a no-no)

and place it where it's easier to remove, and he also put the works vertically.

The damaged diaphragm:

The motor setup vertically

Water pumped screwed back in and ready to go.  It now does work without leaking.

This took most of the rainy day to complete.  I also read Incredible Tales of the Sea, a short story collection including Robert Louis Stephenson's Treasure Island  when Long John Silver finds the treasure with Jim on the island, Daniel Defoe's description from Robinson Crusoe's  dangerous sail around his island on his home made boat with a sail., Victor Hugo's "An Imprisoned Thunderstorm" describing a terrible lose cannon on a ship after its rolled around and finally captured.  Jules Verne's "An Unknown Species of Whale" about Captain Faragut on board the "Abraham Lincoln" frigate out to capture a narwhal.  The book also has Homer and Charles Dickens.

The next day, MONDAY NOVEMBER 9, was bright sunny and warm.  We took some walks around the historic downtown where there may be as many as 50 historic homes and places to tour.  There are horse and buggy tours, trolley tours and guided bike tours.

  From the mooring field we see Flagler College spires poking the blue sky and crenellated tops of the original architecture for the hotels.