Published 04/20/2025
Up at about 7. Breakfast, bible reading getting organized, then off the boat. Drop off laundry, then off to the restaurant supply store for some meat and other odds and ends. Sams club and the Bodega Tienda (Walmart) to finish the shopping. Next stop lunch, the first place had an awful smell so we went to the second place and got way too much food. After picking up the laundry we went back to the boat. Reneé put all the food away, I sorted laundry then updated the blog.
When she was done then it was my turn, first the light in the aft head above the mirror got replaced, then the lower stern navigation light, it has been working occasionally, we have two so I wasn’t too worried about it, but now it works all the time.
Finally the big job, replace the propane solenoid. It is actually a pretty easy job, just that where it is makes it a pain. The propane locker is accessed from on deck in the aft port corner. So, it is a matter of removing the tanks, and then taking out the regulator and solenoid. A screwdriver and a couple of wrenches. Then reverse the process and stick the two wires through the plug to get them into the aft Lazerette. This where the fun begins, there are two wires coming from the switch and two wires from the solenoid, but it is behind the propane locker which means climbing into the aft lap and reaching around behind the fiberglass locker to get to the wires and make the connections. But it was all done by about 5 pm.
Ok, so we are not done yet. We washed the boat and flushed a couple of slow drains, the starboard scupper (deck drain), the sink in the aft head (always slow) and the right kitchen sink, we usually wash dishes in the left one which means anything that accumulates in the drain for the right sink pretty much sits there (the way the drains work the left sink drain goes straight down, and the right sink tees into it.
So, by 6.45, it is shower time.
No pictures today.