July 24-26, 2001 -- More Work and More Play

Today, after compiling the list of things that we needed to pick up, we set out for town to visit a number of different stores to acquire necessary items for the projects we plan to work on, as well as our weekly visit to the grocery store. After we returned to the boat, Enza Marine called to let us know that we would need to drop off copies of our ships papers (needed for duty free) so that Enza could pick up the new DC compressor for our freezer system. I walked to their shop to drop them off. On the way back, I stopped by the office at Spice Island Marina and picked up the replacement warranty furling parts that Hood shipped us. On July 25, Mike moved the switch for the garbage disposal and I took up the aft head to make it easier to install the new compressor for the freezer. The compressor will be mounted under the sink. We found that there was a leak on the input water line to the head. We were planning to redo some of the grout around the head while it was up. As we looked into the leak, we found that the tiles & grout around the head were sopping. So we pulled those up and found another layer of tile under them that was also in bad shape. These turned out to be marble tile but could not be saved as many of them were cracked. We also found the subfloor to be rotted in a few sections. We are going to have to have this replaced, before the head can go back down. So I pulled up all of the old tile on the sole (floor in boat talk). At this point we where both beat, and it was about 1:00 PM so we loaded the dinghy with the old tiles and then got cleaned up and went in to the boatyard restaurant to grab a Chicken Roti for lunch. We stopped by Masade on the way in, they had been going through the project from hell as well. They decided to stop and join us for lunch. A Roti is beef, chicken or fish and Potatoes cooked in curry & spices then rolled in a shell like a burrito. After lunch we hauled the old tile and trash from the dinghy up to the dumpster at the yard, then returned to the boat to collapse for the evening! On July 26, I woke up sore! It was rainy out so I decided that we would take the day off! At 5:00, we headed up to the bar to help Micki celebrate her birthday. It was a fun evening. We returned to the boat and spent a quiet evening aboard