AquaFennatic Great Loop Blog: Cape Haze Florida – Our Southern Home

Dec 9^th – It was a cold and cloudy day today. It was another good day to perform jobs on the boat while Maria did the laundry. I tackled one of our intermittent issues with one of the Tachometers on the flybridge. I found a corroded connection and a corroded wire thus I replaced some of the wiring and it seems to be working OK … but intermittent issues are always hard to determine if they are fixed or if there is another hidden cause. Nobody knows that better than me! I also connected the cable TV to the boat to give us something to do during the lousy weather … which we haven’t had much of, however it removed it from my “Honey Do List”.

Dec 10^th – It was a warm and sunny day. Don called this morning and invited us to go to a large Flee Market with both him and Jim. The flee market was very large and had a wide variety of merchandise. We bought a couple of things and afterwards we went out for a late lunch at a restaurant in Punta Gorda. After lunch we dropped by West Marine and then back to the boat for happy hour with Jim and Don.

Dec 11^th – It was a warm and cloudy day. I used this as another day to catch up on boat jobs. First I removed the reverse osmosis membrane from our Water Maker and sourced a replacement part so we can make our own drinking water from salt water. Next I reviewed the forward head connections to determine how best to integrate a macerator pump for the Bahamas. After my jobs were done Don picked us up and we went to Greg’s and Joanne’s place to celebrate Greg’s 65^th birthday. We had cocktails and snacks before going to Red Lobster for his birthday dinner.