Up at 7 ish. Breakfast and the net, then Reneé headed off to the refuge of hope to work with the kids there. John showed up and worked for a couple of hours on wiring. We discussed the generator issues and he has some ideas. So we will see what happens there.
The guys were by to pump out the holding tank, while they were here, I got to thinking about one of the irksome little issues we have, which is that the port side deck drain doesn’t drain. I have tried running water down with the hose nozzle, and also up from where it comes out of the boat, nothing seems to work for very long, and nothing really comes out either. So, I asked them to suck on the drain with the vacuum hose. They got some stuff out the top, then I used the hose from down below and after several times of on for a while and off, I got a huge glob of some stuff out the bottom and now the drain works! YEAH!! We will see how long that works.
The boat bottom got cleaned today, a new zinc was installed on the shaft.
A “zinc” is a sacrificial anode. What that means is it made of a material that has free electrons, and has a greater potential than the “good” metal stuff we have on the bottom of the boat that is exposed to the water.
The plan was: Tonight we are going to the movies with Val and Larry to see the movie “Maverick Top Gun”. They will be driving and we are leaving from here about 6 pm for a 7:30 pm movie.
What actually happened: Larry was not feeling well, so the movie was canceled. Instead we went to the community room and played Mexican train. There were 11 of us, so two tables. Different rules than we have played before. No score keeping.
Then back to the boat, showers and bed.
