FAIL

So some of you may be wondering why the lack of pictures lately.  Well it is because don (yes he is little d again) left all the important batteries back in New York.  So Now we have a very expensive camera doing nothing while so many important events in this trips lifespan pass all of you by.  Now right here you should be wondering why a trip of this magnitude only has one camera involved in it.  well, it doesn't.  It is just that andrew (yes I have eliminated my capital too) put his little digital in such a safe place it took him two days to find it again.  So now we have my little camera and a new waterproof camera to bring you more pictures while our big camera has a couple of days off.  To be fair the big camera probably needs it couple of days off and it is time for the little cameras to step up anyway.

So today I have given the both of us a Fail.

Yesterday ended up being a very productive day.  We were back to being up a 7 and on the net by 7:30.  We proceeded to make our usual two trips a day to Home depot (we only do two trips because we manage to forget something the first time, every time).  Don got himself an angle grinder and had a good time cutting through our rusted anchor chain.  This footage is on the big camera but unfortunately you have to use a decent amount of imagination to really see it.  We managed to save a 100 feet of the chain.  We think this will probably be the start of our secondary anchor rode(a rode is the anchor line and is usually either all chain or a combination chain/rope).  After that we blew up the dinghy and put it''s floor in.  We have been patching this for the last two days and as of this morning it was holding it's air and looks in good shape.  The outboard is in the shop for the next week and we are hoping it come's out and work's like a new one.

After the events of the anchor chain we spent a few hours going over all the port holes and seeing what needs replacing.  Don designed some new netting fittings for the port holes which worked really well and will save us another few hundred dollars.

That's about it.  Happy Martin Luther King weekend to everyone and see you tomorrow

Oh and there has been someone severely missing from these posts, Carl. Last night we all received a text from Carl that read "I'm having a minor panic attack right now". So I (this is Don typing now) promptly called him. Now normally any conversation between Carl and I is pretty much just an exchange of insults and belittling remarks to which we both laugh and retort appropriately. It is always this way, whether we are talking about hockey or a death in the family. Always. Last night was the first time I ever consciously stopped winding Carl up. Basically he had things all set to be a reasonable move over the course of 9 or 10 days. Now, due to some out of his hands work delays, he has 2 and a half days. Yeah.....two and one half days to wrap up a life, make sure Raleigh is legal (which has required more work than any other aspect of preparation of the last two years) and drive to SoCal. Thankfully the conversation quickly returned to our norm once I told him of some moronic happening around the boat. He quickly laughed, called me an idiot, and sounded rejuvenated. All hell on the northwest front, or something like that. You can do it Carol Anne!!