After all the failures of the last post I can report one more in the leak category. Strangely it showed itself in the exact same spot as the last but was due to an overflowing air conditioning condensate pan. I must have moved the drain hose when I was fixing the other leak causing it not to flow correctly. No more issues yet but boats are boats so something will go wrong!
We had a fun weekend at Jon's. Jon and Janice were there just for Friday and Saturday morning before they set out for Canada and Sian's 60th birthday celebrations. Not before Jon and I sampled Motorworks' IPAs. I took the following picture of the bar inlay. It was made from many CNC machined parts and the bar had three of them along its length. Impressive work.
Jo and I met with Jamie and Jenn (now of Twin Dolphin, previously here at Loggerhead) and Matt and Karie (sp?) for a great dinner at Blue Mangrove on Saturday before heading home to Vero on Sunday.
Our Hope Town friends Paul and Eileen live in Jensen Beach. They boated up to stay at our marina for a few days. This was us for lunch in Sebastian at Capt'n Butcher's.
Spooky finds the cutest pose when sleeping:
Linda sent us this picture of our old slip at Hope Town Inn and Marina. The blue face was Rick's image of Winston that he thought we would need when things got quiet there. It's still in place and Sasha looks well.
We decided to get a change of scenery yesterday so we headed down to Ft Pierce for lunch at a new spot. As we left the water was very calm. These apartments are just opposite our slip.
We stopped at Ft Pierce inlet to sit and watch the boat traffic before heading to Archie's Seabreeze.
Archie's is an old bar, popular with bikers, and is very relaxed.
The decor is very basic but the staff are fun and the beer and food is good.
On the way home we splashed out a couple of bucks to visit the Manatee Center in Ft Pierce. We saw no manatees but we did get to pet this Corn Snake. And Jo didn't know how much she liked snakes!
The nights are cooler and clearer now. Life is good.
...when it seems something is always going wrong. In no particular order:
1. We found a leak in the boat. Tracked it down to the galley/forward head sump. Dried everything out, cleaned the sump (always a yucky job). Figured all would be well.
2. We use those shower soap dispensers and Jo decided to change shower gel to a different colour so I had to hose down the old to take the new. I have a hose on the swim platform. All was well until two of the chrome push buttons fell into the water and sank to the bottom. New shower dispenser.
3. The leak persists. Figure it must be rain (it's fresh water not sea water) so I go out and caulk everything I can see on the outside. Seems ok.
4. Get stopped by the police for having a licence tag out of date. It's a rental car so we are innocent. The rental company updated the tag.
5. The ice maker quit. I took it apart and isolated the problem to one of two components. Problem was the chassis was rusted as well. So I ordered a new one somewhat reluctantly. It came in Wednesday and fit perfectly and works much better than the other one ever did.
6. The leak persists. I had a brain-wave. The fresh water system has an accumulator that leaked a year ago. I fixed it. What if that area was leaking? The water would find it's way down to where we were seeing water. This is the way it was. The previous owner had mated flexible hose directly to semi-rigid pipe without a fixture on both sides of the accumulator. It's in the picture at middle bottom. That's where the leak was coming from!
I changed out the accumulator for a new one and used fixtures for the pipework. See below.
I wanted to change the whole arrangement but didn't have teh fittings in my spares box. A job for later. Leak fixed!
Now we're off to Bradenton to get Jo's hair fixed, mine cut and meet up with friends at Twin Dolphin. Spooky is not happy but she seems to know we'll be back.
