May 15-16, 2000 -- Clean Up

On the 15th, we started working on the clean up. Bob and Joanne came over, as did Jim on Moonglow and Mark on Matahoonie. So there were lots of supervisors while Bob dived on our prop and Jim's anchor chain. We worked with Bob as well as we could, and eventually got the chain to within 1 wrap of coming completely off our prop and shaft when he ran out of air in his tank. A little bit later, Bob and I headed in to town to get his air tank filled. From the marina office, we called the one dive shop in Fernandina Beach. Unfortunately, their compressor was not working, and wouldn't be for several days. However, the dive shop did loan tanks for $8.00. We headed out and picked it up. After we got back, I dropped Bob off on his boat, and I headed back to ours. At the next slack tide, Bob came back over, and Jim joined us from Moonglow. In short order, Bob had our prop and shaft completely free. While he was down there, he checked our other prop for possible damage as well as our rudder. Fortunately, there was no damage. Jim, Mike and I worked Jim's anchor chain up to our bow and tied it off for the night. On May 16, we decided to get our anchor situation cleaned up. We tried to raise our danforth anchor. We got it high enough to see that it was completely fouled in anchor chain. There was no way for us to unfoul it ourselves. We called Boat US who sent out a boat to help us with this problem. It took us the greater part of the day, but we finally were able to get our anchors untangled, and retrieve Jim's anchor and chain. Once everything was up, Jim and the tow boat headed to his boat to get his ground tackle aboard his boat while we moved our boat to reanchor for the night. (note BoatUS, unlimited towing for $99, covered this whole thing, boy we where glad we got that last year) It was another physically exhausting day. In the late afternoon, we talked with Bob and Joanne on Timonee about the possibility of leaving in the morning to move to Charleston. We decided to buddy boat with them, just to make sure that if anything did go wrong with our boat, they would be close by. We decided that it looked very promising for tomorrow, and if we did leave, we would plan to leave at 11:00 AM