First thing this morning, Mike went up the mast to check out the radar guard problem that we developed. As it turns out, the screws pulled out of the bracket for the guy wire, which is probably what caused us to loose the radar. The only question we still have is why the bracket came loose. They could have pulled out, or they could have vibrated out over time. During the trip, I noticed water dripping from Ling Ling's raw water intake vented loop. It wasn't leaking badly at the time, and I knew that we would be shutting her off shortly, so I left it at the time. Today, we checked the vented loops on Ling Ling. The vent caps on both the intake and exhaust were extremely loose. We tightened them down, and we will check it out the next time we run her. After that, we put the flash light hanger up on the fly bridge. We have only been wanting to do that since we left the Chesapeake Bay! When we are traveling over night, we have a flashlight that we keep on the fly bridge for making our log entries and to check sail shape and things like that. We originally kept the flash light by the compass, but discovered that the metal of the flash light alters the compass reading! We have kept the flash light in various places since then, all of which are wildly unsecure. We found a spare flashlight holder last week and put it to good use. After dealing with a veritable flood from water seeping through the seams of our fly bridge console, we finished caulking the front of the console on the fly bridge. It wasn't a pretty job, but we were able to caulk under the port radar. The starboard one will have to wait until the next time we remove the upper GPS. Our last task was to move the water maker to BUS 1. It had been sharing a leg with our water heaters which put an extremely heavy load on one leg of our generators. While we were at it, we decided to move things around and invert the few remaining outlets on the boat. We now have 8 things on our port bank, 8 things on our starboard bank and 11 things that are generator / shore powered only, not including the 220 V stuff. After the regular work was over, we still had some maintenance work to do. We changed the primary raycors on the engines at the same time we checked the oil on the engines. As it turns out, this was a wise decision since the filters were gunked up! Finally, it was play time. We dropped the dinghy and discovered that the battery was dead! The light switch got hit when we were putting it away in Wrightesville Beach. This really sucked since we forgot to put the plug in the dinghy and it started filling with water the instant I got in. Mike tried to warn me, but I had already stepped into six inches of water! I was forced to reach, almost to the shoulder, in cold water to put the plug in! We pulled out the charger, goosed the battery, and emptied the bilge. We then started a trip in to town. As soon as we discovered that it was no wake all the way into town, we turned around and headed back to the boat. On the way, we stopped to admire a schooner rigged 60 foot Morgan. It is headed out in the next few days to travel to West Palm Beach. At 10:00 PM EST, we got to see the space shuttle launch! It was way cool. We even got to see the booster rockets detach and fall off