Cell’s Back

Beth's Dad and Beth

We are happy to be at Old Port Cove Marina to visit with Beth’s dad who has a condo just up the road. Dave and Danielle (Beth’s niece) are here for a week, so we are fortunate that their visit coincides with ours. We’ve been able to do laundry go to the beach and Dave took us out to dinner at one of Beth’s favorite restaurants, The River House. Noah had a great time at the beach, playing in the surf and being buried in the sand.

The cell phone stopped accepting a charge, so we visited the local Verizon store. They replaced the phone under warranty, so we are able to communicate by phone again. That shouldn’t last too much longer as we won’t be using the phone in the Bahamas. We hope to use Skype and now have a Skype In number. That service will work when we have a wi-fi connection and take messages when we don’t.

Noah and his Cousin Danielle

Spent some “quality time” with the engine over the last few days. While performing the 250 hour service we noticed chafe on several of the fuel and water lines. They run on the opposite side that they did with the old engine and get pinched between the engine and the side of the compartment. It was worst where the metal engine mount was vibrating against the raw water hose. One portion of the hose had abraded to the point where the metal reinforcement was visible. It was hidden and tied with wire ties. Spent most of the day running new hose and still need to provide more chafe protection to insure it doesn’t happen again. Only relay this so that other folks will do a thorough inspection of hoses as a  preventative measure.

The weather doesn’t look conducive for our crossing to Nassau this week, so we may stick around here while Beth’s family is in town.