The people are very friendly at the marina we are staying at. We met a couple from Manitoba other day that live in Ninette during the summers and spend the winters down on their boat. We also had some new neighbors arrive on Sunday. The picture posted with this blog has our boat in the foreground with Dave's boat behind us. His boat is a 150 foot motor yacht and we got a tour of it yesterday. OMG! Everything about it is HUGE. It is powered by 3 - 1200hp engines and carries 15,000 gallons of diesel fuel.

Things have been going pretty good on the cleaning front. We have the Port hull all cleaned out and looking spiffy. We have also gone through and cleaned the salon and galley, washed all the dishes etc. There was some "Orange Glow" wood polish on the boat that really brings all the wood work to life after applying it along with a lot of elbow grease. Yesterday morning we started on the aft cabin that is in terrible condition. The previous owner used to run a generator in that room and it stinks real bad and there are grease stains everywhere. We decided that we would rip out all of the stained wood pieces and cut new ones, but as I took out the wood, we discovered that some of the pieces were soaked with diesel fuel - not good. We keep taking off more pieces until we exposed the fuel tank and could see that was the source of the problem. So it looks like our tank is leaking and will have to come out to see if it can be repaired. I have a guy coming over on Thursday to help me take it out and hopefully we can get is resolved.
It is fantastic having internet access on the boat as we check email all the time, use skype to call home and we listen to CJAY 92 in the morning so we can keep up with what's going on at home. I have a diesel mechanic coming over this afternoon to trouble shoot the problems with the port engine, and hopefully that is something that can get resolved fairly quickly.