September 25-30, 2000 -- Another Week in Oxford

We took it easy today. After going for several weeks, we just needed a day off! On September 26, we removed all the wallpaper except for port stateroom. We also started cleaning the glue off of the walls in the aft and starboard staterooms. The walls certainly look a lot better! On September 27, we put the stay sail back up. The sail loft put a chafe patch on that makes the sail look very poor. After talking with Braxton, we (naturally) decided to fix the problem rather than treat the symptom. The sail loft would come back, take the sail down and we would have the offending chafe points taped. Next, we took the helm seats into town to a canvas shop to pick out new padding, as the padding that came in them lets you "bottom" out. This was not comfy for long trips, in fact after an hour or two it was really bad. We also went to the market since the yard loaned us a car. On September 28, we goofed off again. We got the second go-ped running though. It turns out that the kill switch had gone bad and would not let it start. Then we took it kind of easy. On September 29, we pulled out old wires & tried to find the second 12 Volt negative bus with no luck. On September 30, we checked battery water. While we were at it, we found the ground bus and got that set up for the monitor. We also put the first coat of Armada on the bottom of the cap rails before they were mounted