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April 7, 2009
There are businesses and people you deal with from time to time that make you truly content and safe. Snead Island Boat Works and its staff have made us feel that comfortable. They are conscientious and courteous. We cannot say enough nice about them. They even loaned us a truck!
The toilets are still not working, so I speak with Steve, the in-charge person for our boat. He sends down Shawn who works through the system. We have to replace the macerators. One of the holding tanks has a crack in an inlet that needs to be repaired. They also tell us about Sweet Tanks. Sweet Tanks are wafer type gadgets that fit on holding tanks to stop the odor. A holding tank will smell if anaerobic bacteria can grow. The Sweet Tanks prevent the growth of anaerobic bacteria and eliminate the smell. They are being installed.
We are now weathered in. The day is beautiful. The winds are calm. But, we have to make a close to 200 mile jump and a system is blowing across the US and we cannot leave until it passes. So, I’m going to work today. I think I can do a lot of work from here and I’ll give it a try. Maybe, just maybe, we can get moving on Friday or Saturday.
I put out a crew call to the guys who have talked about sailing with us if we need help. Once we leave here we will have to contend with some overnight sails in order to stay close to our predicted return date. We need extra crew for these because we don’t have enough experience with night sailing to feel comfortable being out there. Plus, with just two on board, sleeping is difficult. Later, when we have more skills, we will do this alone, but not this trip.
We spoke with Captain Ernie and Captain Randy today and have agreed to hire them to get us from Tampa Bay to either Apalachicola or maybe even as far as Pensacola. We are just waiting on the weather.
Post again tomorrow
Royal Crescent.
There are businesses and people you deal with from time to time that make you truly content and safe. Snead Island Boat Works and its staff have made us feel that comfortable. They are conscientious and courteous. We cannot say enough nice about them. They even loaned us a truck!
The toilets are still not working, so I speak with Steve, the in-charge person for our boat. He sends down Shawn who works through the system. We have to replace the macerators. One of the holding tanks has a crack in an inlet that needs to be repaired. They also tell us about Sweet Tanks. Sweet Tanks are wafer type gadgets that fit on holding tanks to stop the odor. A holding tank will smell if anaerobic bacteria can grow. The Sweet Tanks prevent the growth of anaerobic bacteria and eliminate the smell. They are being installed.
We are now weathered in. The day is beautiful. The winds are calm. But, we have to make a close to 200 mile jump and a system is blowing across the US and we cannot leave until it passes. So, I’m going to work today. I think I can do a lot of work from here and I’ll give it a try. Maybe, just maybe, we can get moving on Friday or Saturday.
I put out a crew call to the guys who have talked about sailing with us if we need help. Once we leave here we will have to contend with some overnight sails in order to stay close to our predicted return date. We need extra crew for these because we don’t have enough experience with night sailing to feel comfortable being out there. Plus, with just two on board, sleeping is difficult. Later, when we have more skills, we will do this alone, but not this trip.
We spoke with Captain Ernie and Captain Randy today and have agreed to hire them to get us from Tampa Bay to either Apalachicola or maybe even as far as Pensacola. We are just waiting on the weather.
Post again tomorrow
Royal Crescent.
It sounds like these guys are running a business like it should be. It is people like that which restore your faith in humanity! (some what) We are glad you were able to get hooked up with them in your time of need. Your intuition about the markers going in payed off. I was on the edge of my seat reading about your adventure. We are well and await your safe return.
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