July 09-13, 2000 -- At Anchor Then At Dock

July 9-13, 2000 -- At Anchor Then At Dock On July 9, since we had dropped the dinghy, Mike decided to buff out the "Road Harbour, BVI" shadow that was showing up in the exhaust film on the stern of the boat. We've been talking about doing this for a long time. We just never seemed to get around to doing it! After breakfast, I sat down to try to catch up on writing logs. I was certainly behind! While I continued working on logs, Mike started fixing the door on the fly bridge radio cabinet. He finally reached the point where he had to wait for the glue to dry before he could put the last connector on. On July 10, we took the dinghy in to the dock to find out if there was room at the dock again since Tink still wasn't working properly. We returned to the boat and brought it back in. In the process of running the shore power cables, we finally were able to get 2 50 amp power cords hooked up and running! We spent the rest of the day faxing things to various people. Near the end of the day, the weather report indicated that we should expect high winds and bad thunderstorms, so we put extra lines on the boat. On July 11, we decided that since we were at dock, we should completely remove the last of the Inmarsat A cable about 50 pounds of it was remaining, which I am happy to report we did successfully. Mike then had the great idea to move our games from the V Berth to the aft companionway locker. The workers came out to take measurements for our new steering tank and to remove our railing, lifelines and stanchions. Later, the boat yard loaned us the yard car so we could head to a real grocery store for reprovisioning and to 'experience' the night life of Easton and Oxford. We compromised, and only had dinner before heading to the grocery store. On July 12, based on our success in the aft stateroom, Mike stripped the wallpaper on the forward bulkhead in the main saloon while I polished the brass clock and barometer. It looks like a different boat now! The generator guy came out and confirmed that the injection pump is bad. He removed it and the 3 injectors. 2 of them were not seated correctly, lacking a copper washer at the bottom, missing since sometime before be got the boat. One was so clogged with carbon build up that it was difficult to get out! Everything was sent off to be rebuilt. On July 13, since we knew how much of our teak caprail would be replaced, we set about sanding our last section of teak for the caprail! I sanded then Mike came behind and put the Armada on. Later on it rained; Mike was upset, but the rain didn't affect the teak. We got mail! Finally, we pulled down our staysail for repair. We discovered that the repairs from chafing were a little to much for me to repair so we sent it to a sail maker