Removing Old Fitting

December 9

Used last few hours of car rental to buy additional hardware for boom, extract authoritative promise to finish gooseneck casting tomorrow and patronize a new breakfast restaurant. Spent afternoon in group effort attaching all riveted hardware, including aft end casting, to locations that may have a passing chance at being correct. Had reorganized tools, sometime in October, to successfully eliminate slightest possibility of finding taps to add last few bits. Assuming machine shop comes through, taps are found (borrowed?) and global warming doesn't make life as we know it untenable, should have complete cutter rig Friday.

Weather for next week or so makes transit of Colombia coast ill advised, but may hop to Aruba this weekend for shorter eventual shot. Will interface with others going same way to facilitate turning colored water of plan into jello.

Crew to dive a couple of tanks in afternoon while I hang out at Curacao Marina encouraging assurance fulfillment. Asiento's Thursday happy hour may be a touch cheerier.

Although death by common cold is unlikely and felt OK most of today (except for honking and sneezing), have now collapsed into blob of quivering protoplasm anticipating early night and fruitful tomorrow.

Jack