You can monitor my trip at the link: Second Winds Progress Live
Today was a hangout day
in Mile Hammock Bay. As I mentioned
yesterday, we have bypassed one of our stops and are now a day ahead of where
the rest of the group so we decided that since this is a very well protected
and calm anchorage, we might as well spend the day here. I say we, I am talking about Sam and Phil on Sweet Pea and me.
I basically spent the
day doing little odd jobs around the boat.
I repaired a torn bag that holds the anchor and other miscellaneous
stuff on the dinghy. I rearranged the
things in our jammed pack drawers. We
have three of them under the galley counter.
They are quite small and we have dumped into them a whole lot of
different items that we feel we should have close at hand. It turns out that quite a number of those
items could be stored elsewhere making the drawer space more usable.
Sam, who is new to the
cruising world, bought a new dinghy and 2.3 Honda motor for her trip down the
ICW. She had the guy at the shop show
her how to start it and gave her a few pointers but she has, until today never
put it on the dinghy and used it. I went
over and helped a bit. They got it on
and running but the thing will not idle.
I pulled the cover off to find the idle adjustment screw and it appears
not to have one. When I get to a place
where I have internet service, I will check on line for others who have
experienced the same problem.
A better part of the
day I spent reading. The temperature is
pleasant, in the upper 70s and the winds are light so it was a really nice day
to lounge around and read.
Sam offered that she
had bought a pound of hamburgers and invited me to join them for dinner. I accepted and offered that I could bring GREEN
BEANs. She hesitantly agreed that the
BEANS would be fine but later her husband Phil called and said that she
remembered that she had bought sweet corn and so she didn’t need my BEANS. I guess I will just have to eat them myself.
I had forgotten to turn
my anchor light so at around 7:30 as it was getting really dark, I took my
leave before it was too dark to find the boat.
I called home and hand a nice long conversation with Janine before I
crawled into bed.
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