Day 99 The Great Escape!!

The kids escaped today.  One minute Snowshoe was on board and the next down below the boat.  Not sure how he got down there as its about 12 feet, but he made it.  After getting him corralled and back on board and confined to quarters, Blue is gone.  Probably the same way.  Knowing her, upset that he got off the boat first.  She took off for a storage shed 30 feet from the boat and got underneath it and wasn't coming out for anyone.  We tried food--nope. We tried toys--she just laughed at us.  Finally, I started just throwing stones under the shed.  Eureka--it worked.  Out she came and not to happy about it.  We tried to catch her--nope--back under the shed.  More stones and out she came again.  Now just a bit scared and lost as she knows how to get down but not how to get back up.  When Tracy came down to help me catch her, she closed up Zephyr just in case--HA--that didn't stop Snowshoe.  Somehow he managed to escape again and wound up at the base of the stairs.  He may not be the brightest cat, but he knows how to get out.  We didn't even know he was out till a man in the next boat asked us if we were looking for a white cat.  Back to the boat he went along with his sister.

I got two of the winches down today.  As you can see, lots of parts to these things.  Each has to be washed in kerosene to get the grease and oil off.  Then washed in soapy water to get the kerosene off.  Then re-greased--lightly.  I actually painted on a thin film of grease just to make sure there wasn't a lot put on.  Some oil here and there and back together.  I took pictures along the way just to make sure I knew how to put it back together.

I'm down to three left.  Each one takes about three hours to get done.  With so many pieces, you don't want to end up with extra pieces when you finish.

We are ordering new lettering for Zephyrs stern.  The old one is a bit faded and we need to change the "hailing port" from Seattle to Denver to comply with the Coast Guard.  The last thing we want to do is upset them.

Our electrician rearranged some of the batteries and chargers today.  He wants all the chargers together and and most of the batteries together.   The original set up had been charger-two batteries--charger--two batteries.  Now it's two chargers and four batteries.  We haven't heard from the company that is fixing the charge monitoring system.  Hope fully tomorrow.  He was supposed to call today.  Oh well.

Tomorrow--more winches.  Boy what fun!?!  Never a dull moment.