April 10, 2000 -- Busy Day

After so long of having few or no workers onboard, we had a boatload today! It started out slowly, the freezer guys came out around 9:00 AM. They needed a carpenter to frame in the freezer box before they started foaming it in. I headed off to find our service manager. He found us a carpenter and the freezer guys were off and running. Just as the freezer guys got settled in, the rigger from Inflatable Experts came out to install our tachometer and speedometer. He set to work immediately. Next, guys from the machine shop came out to remove our windlass backing plate. They removed it pretty quickly, once again we had no windlass! Just when we thought we couldn't get any more people on the boat, the canvas guy came out with more canvas, including our dinghy cover. We couldn't do anything with it since the rigger was still working on the dinghy! Finally, things started settling down so we replaced our DC freshwater pump. It went pretty smoothly, though we had to switch mounting bases. As they changed the mounting bracket, on the new pump. We where glad the old bracket would still mount up to the pump. At the end of the day, we checked to see if the phone line had been installed. Celebration time! We have a phone line!!!