July 16 and 17 2010
17 July 2010 | Belfast ME
Rik - Hot and sunny and loving it!
July 16 and 17 2010
Hot and sunny, cooler, damp and foggy - repeat Ad nauseam. So, we spend a boat day when it is not nice out and sail and swim when it is. Right now we are in Scoops in Belfast ME eating Blueberry Ice Cream and doing email and web stuff. It is 85 F today, sailing was splendid and we are enjoying it to the fullest.
Yesterday - that was a cooler and damp day. I changed the oil and filter, tightened the alternator belt, installed an LED light, and spent some time with new friends Phil and Nikkie from the UK. They are here on their 39 foot cat. They are also friends of Pat and Liz from Falmouth UK who spent time with us in Freddy last summer. The boating world is a wonderfully small one.
We have a strange "problem" with our domestic water. we have two tanks connected (125 gallons total) and we have to sinks. One in the head and one in the galley. The sink in the heads smells like sulfur when we run the tap but the sink in the galley water smells normal. Same source. Suggestions??
Captain Hook is taking over the boat more and more. Whenever we tie up to a dock, he want to get off and explore. Yesterday we were tied up near the Lincoln Ferry terminal on Vinylhaven and of course he jumped ship and explored the dock. He started toward the gang plank up to the shore and so I came up behind him and scuffed my foot on the aluminum gangplank - making quite a noise. Off like a shot past me, across the dock and onto His Boat! What a fun little guy!
Well - it is getting too warm here in Scoops - maybe we'll head next door to Rollies, get a pitcher and sit where it is air conditioned.
Shalom all
Rik