July 19- 23,2000 -- Oxford to Annapolis

On July 19, we plotted our course to Annapolis, using some of the new functions in the latest release of the Capn. We discovered a bug and reported it to the developer. Since we had some time, we hauled out the salt blocks so we could place salt in the salt tanks for our Lectrasans. While we were filling the salt tank in the aft stateroom, we discovered that the float switch on our aft stateroom bilge had gone bad. Unfortunately, we did not have a spare float switch on board but they did have one at the chandlery. After we completed that, we found that the starboard head salt injection pump is having a problem with injecting salt. Since we will be in DC in a bit, we will have Will check it out since it is still under warranty. Finally, our injector pump still had not arrived so we couldn't leave. On July 20, we took advantage of the time to put another coat of armada on our rails and I polished some stainless. In the afternoon, our injector pump got hooked up, the generator test fired and we left the dock to anchor out for the evening. We tried to fire up Tink for the evening, and he wouldn't stay running. On July 21, we made the run to Annapolis from Oxford. We made it in well before the races. I headed in to Bay Shore Marine to get some spare relays. After checking things out, we discovered that one of the wires had pulled out from the shut down relay. We fixed it and had a fully operational generator again! That evening, we watched the set up for the sailboat races, it was quite amusing. On July 22, we corrected the ground solenoid problem on Ling-Ling. After Mike showered, we discovered that the starboard shower sump was no longer working. So, we headed in to Fawcetts to get a replacement. Mike told me that since he fixed Ling-Ling, I would get to replace the pump. On July 23, right after we woke up, we heard a horn blowing. We came up on deck and discovered that a boat had dragged between us and the boat that was blowing its horn. Mike went on deck to find out how much scope he had out. His response was that he had "enough" out. Mike pushed him on it, and he said that he had about 40 feet out. Mike advised him that we had out 65 feet, and that our boat was 68 feet and that he was in our swing circle and we were both in danger if he didn't move his boat. He said he would move it, then went back inside. After a few minutes, it was obvious he had no plans to move his boat, so we broke out the rap CD we keep for this type of situation. We cranked up the outside speakers, the pilot house and V-berth speakers. That wasn't loud enough, so we also taped open the mike to our hailer and placed that near one of the speakers. The idiot left about 10 minutes later. Around 11:00 or so, we called the boats that we knew and suggested we meet in town for lunch. We rendezvoused with Don and Gloria on Zaftra, Bob and Mona on Mutual Fun, and Eric and Susan on Ellysia. After lunch, we wandered over to check out Shamaal since it is on the hard, then wandered back to the ego alley dinghy dock. It was fun!