January 28-31, 2000 -- Untitled

Everything was quiet for 2 days. Most of the work was completed on the boat, and the final pieces were still being worked out. On January 30, a motor vessel on its way to Honduras requested that someone pass a message to friends that everything was OK on his boat. Someone volunteered in Marathon, but was unable to receive the message. We volunteered to pass it for them. On January 31, we went to an Internet cafe to download various patches for the computers as well as some new software. We went to install these on the Dell and discovered that the hard drive had crashed! Mike spent some time on the phone with Dell Tech Support (about an hour total) who finally agreed that we did, indeed, have a hard drive problem. They said they would send out a new hard drive for us