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From: "Wayne.B"
Newsgroups: rec.boats.cruising
Sent: Friday, August 20, 2010 11:54 PM
Subject: Is everyone out cruising?


On Fri, 20 Aug 2010 18:19:15 -0400, "Flying Pig"
wrote:

Skip, hoping to do the port side scrubbing on an intentional grounding
tomorrow

Good to know someone is still connected. :-)

Killer connection, and even Batelco (usually) cooperates (there are dead
times when BTC goes away, and with it the data flow on the still-booming
signal).


We're back home in SWFL, about halfway through a 52 item "to do" list.
The fun just never stops but progress is being made. The trick is to
work fast enough that more items are fixed than new issues popping up.

Heh. BTDT - our 4-page to-do, list when we were refitting, never got much
below 2 full pages. Fortunately, our to-do list runs to single digits now...

Took a low blow a week ago when the aft air con unit in the main cabin
went out but fortunately all it needed was a new thermostat.

Wish they could all be that easy - a cruiser here, using a local mechanic,
was troubleshooting a power problem on a 4-154. One injector didn't make
any change in the engine sound, so the mech was going to swap two around.
Happens I had a full set of injectors...

Good thing, too, because the injectors were stuck so hard that two of them
left tips in the head. No amont of brute force would dislodge them, even
after splitting one of them, so the head's now off, going to a machine shop.

Good thing I had the injectors, cuz he's totally out of business, lousy
power or not. If Wilbur's monitoring, that's why I carry all this stuff. I
even have parts that don't go with our boat, cuz SOMEONE will need it. In
any event, what looked like a simple injector swap has turned into something
rather more major!

Side note on that, when I was researching my notes for how much I had to pay
and how much new ones would cost, I found another, VERY different
experience, source for new injectors. Now that we have new in ours, of
course, we don't need replacements, so getting the new ones won't have quite
the urgency our last experience had!


How is the weather in the Abacos? We're getting a lot ot t-storms
here but no big rotating stuff yet. What is your get away plan if
something gnarly comes that way?

Great. Light winds at the moment, so we run the fan in the bedroom (only
when the wind's under 6 or so). By the end of the week, we'll be back to
scoop air only. Highs in the upper 80s, low in the upper 70s.

We're staying here because of the variety of hurricane holes. Hopetown
moorings have been through several hurricanes, including more than a couple
of folks we know who have ridden them out there.

White Sound GTC is recommended also, but we've never been in there - thought
we'd have a draft problem, but have been recently assured by a couple of
folks that we can get in at a normal high tide.

Once we get finished with our bottom, we'll dive the reefs around Fowl until
we have a suitable wind to go over and check out Treasure Key, said to be
something we'd likely find OK, too, and perhaps pay the $10 fee to use the
facilities while we're in there. However, that's also been recommended by a
couple of different cruisers as, with nobody here, TC is reported to rent
two for one slips, and one can tie off with lots of separation, so we want
to check that out as well.

In any event, there are several choices for us, the reason we're here
instead of continuing explorations further south...

L8R

Skip

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anywhere at all, you're always busy, and you never do anything in
particular; and when you've done it there's always something else to do, and
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