It was a lug nut
03 June 2013
We arrived in Portsmouth, Virginia on Saturday afternoon and had to wait until Monday morning to find out why our engine failed us. It was a lose lug nut! Fifty cent part will not be invoiced at 50 cents...
We handled it with good karma and washed our boat, filled up the water tanks and baked banana bread! Our Dominican service man entertained us with stories of his Navy days in Chile, Argentina and Colombia. Typical Dominican, party, salsa and women!
We will miss our wonderful new friends here but we will exchange boat cards and plan to see each pther again. One woman is sitting on her boat right now wroting a screenplay for a movie similar to "You've Got Mail" and "The Notebook". She already has her advance and every time one of the Navy boats let's out a loud whistle, she leaves the boat and goes for a drive. Hrd to concentrate. If she only knew the peacefulness of Norht Carolina on the coast.
We will leave in the morning move into the Bay.