Same location...different day...
Here's hoping that all of you that celebrate Easter had a very enjoyable one. Sunday mid-afternoon I received the following two pictures from home. Jeremy said, and I quote 'Blasted kid won the tee game on his very first try. I tried a hundred times!'. I responded 'I knew he was a genius'. I might be a little partial......
This little guy is celebrating his first birthday tomorrow!! Happy Birthday Little Man!!! Miss them both. Thanks for indulging me.
Here Tim and Joe are patiently waiting the arrival of a shuttle van to take us all to the mall this morning. The couple that we hope to travel to the Bahamas with told us about the shuttle, since they have taken advantage of it while here. Really nice service. Barbara made the call to reserve the van today. We tagged along.
After visiting Radio Shack for a single side band radio, we stopped at the food court for lunch. Right before calling the the van to come fetch us, the guys stopped in for a little ice cream.
One of the things we have needed to do was pull out the entire anchor rope to check it out, check its 'tie-down', check the locker, clean the locker, etc.. Well, today was the day. As it was almost all the way out, we had to stop so Joe could perform some rope maintenance. A little background is required here. Before we bought Maggie Mae, Tim paid to have a survey performed on the boat. One of the items needing attention was a soft spot on the bow deck. We paid to have this 'spot' fixed. It appears to all of us that the method of repair was to drill holes in the deck and shoot fiberglass in the holes to firm it up. This soft spot was an area roughly 2'x3', right under the anchor windlass, therefore right over the locker where the anchor rope is kept, coiled nicely. All well and good right? Sure. That is until the repairmen don't care about their work and let the soft fiberglass resin fall through the holes, landing on anything and everything inside the locker. Yes, including the rope. And, what happens to fiberglass resin as it cures? Right. It becomes very hard and is nearly impossible to remove. Just ask Joe. The fresh water fill is also in the area where the deck was repaired. Right after we bought the boat, we had to replace the actual through-hull fill sleeve, because the water pipe that attaches to it had been separated and damaged enough not to be fixable. We think another case of a repair gone bad by poor workmanship. Below is Tim pulling the anchor rope, while I operate the windlass and Joe works to free the rope from inside. Jim and our new friend John watch from the walkway. By the way this is the ONLY time Jim sat down today. I didn't get any more pictures, but he spent at least 5 hours sanding on the back teak stairs. A continuation of the job he started yesterday. They will be amazing when he is done. We feel a little bad that he joined us a week ago today and the weather has kept us from our journey. Poor guy. We keep putting him to work! We also did a little more boat waxing, a little more painting of numbers, etc.....
Here Joe is working on removing resin from the anchor rope.
There are all types of rules and regulations for traveling in and out of the U.S. Tim is the expert, and has an appointment on Wednesday regarding some type of decal we need when we come back from the Bahamas. The place is about 4 miles away. Rather than ride a bike, or pay $28 for a taxi, he decided to get a rental car for 24 hrs. That way we can do more grocery shopping, he can drive to his meeting, and hey, maybe we can do a little site seeing. We've seen Rush Limbaugh's home via aerial satellite photo. It's not too far from where we are.
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