Kerm here.
Gale force winds last night and all today. White caps in the marina. Huge waves in the gulf. We never did have a low tide as the wind is blowing the gulf waters toward us. I'm sick so Chris was up and down all night checking lines and tried to figure out where all the clicks and bangs were coming from. She slept quite a bit of the day today to catch up.
Dan, Chris and I continue to work on the boat. A gem, but as you all know from my race car and all the other boats I tend to be somewhat anal. What is nice is that Dan is not only helping but understands my torment and is going along with it with help and internet research. My original list was 50 + items but is now down to 60. Well, you kinda find things along the way.
Anyway we slammed down about 20 things on the list this past week and should finish another 20 or so this upcoming week. When I go into the local West Marine supply store they actually suck up to me. (For you non mariners West is not known for great customer service.) A lot of the fixing is related to long term cruising and probably would not need to be done if the boat was just for local playing around. Safety, anchoring equipment, electronics, spare parts, some new hoses and on and on.
An example of what Dan did yesterday was mark all valves in the engine room and what is below each engine room floor board. Red for critical (like sinking) and white for info only. He also did research on the fresh water pump for the engine and found that most people replace the pump with an updated more reliable unit made by Johnson vs Jabsco. MO money. If we're in the north channel of Lake Erie me thinks the more reliable one with the old one as a spare might be the ticket. He also got the dingy going with that all powerful 2 HP Johnson.
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