January 01-04, 2001 -- Welcome to the New Year!

We took advantage of a quiet day, and everything already being apart to run speaker wire for two new speakers. We have had them since we got this boat but never put up them up. Next, we removed the stereo system and locker shelves so that the fuel tank inspection ports could be reached. On January 2, we finished running the speaker wire and ran the wire for a cooling fan for our soda system. We were thrilled to see that we can now leave our soda system on all the time! No more flat sodas! On January 3, we headed to Rybovich Spencer to get hauled. Actually, we did that twice! The first time, we were all set to head in when the Jen, the dockmaster, requested that we stand off while they performed some last minute adjustments to the synchrolift cradle. We were staying relatively stationary when Mike pointed out a barge headed in our direction. So, we headed back to the turning basin. We headed back up to Rybovich and into the synchrolift. Six hours later, they finally had us hauled. We found out that new arms had just been installed and they were sticking. This made for a long day! Periodically, we would climb back onboard in order to get simple things like our wallets! Finally the boat was settled in around 5:00 PM.