Day 142 Catitude!!

Blue is still recovering from her night out.  She is repeatedly copping a catitude toward the boys.  Hissing and spitting and getting upset if they even come anywhere near her.  As can be seen, she slept most of the day away yesterday trying to catch up on what she missed the night before.  I haven't seen her sleep so much in a long time. She went well past her normal 18 out of 24 hours that she and the rest of the kids sleep.  She was waiting on the steps out of the boat this morning as I was getting ready to leave to come here.  After all, now that she has experienced the great outdoors, she considers it her cat given rights to come and go as she pleases.  Ain't going to happen.

The Coasties came by about 3pm for their tour of Zephyr.  These people came from all over the US for this class.  Some as far away as Hawaii.  It was all about checking the rigging of sailboats.  They inspected the new and the old rigging and asked lots of questions about Zephyrs history and her rigging.  Asked to see her chain plates(big pieces of stainless steel that the wires that hold the mast up hook onto that are bolted to the hull of the boat).  Ours are fiberglassed into the hull of the boat and can't be seen.  The only way to get at them is  cut out large sections of the interior hull.  

No workmen came to Zephyr yesterday.  At least until we had a power failure.  The battery monitor and controller went a bit crazy again yesterday.  It was charging  the batteries all morning so I turned off the charger.  The boats entire DC system went off line.  For some reason, heaven knows I don't know why, the battery switches had been switched to the "off" position and when I turned off the charger, it couldn't connect the battery power to maintain the system.  Of course, I had no idea as to what had happened so I had to call for a pro to come over(add $75.00 to the bill).  Jack--the electrician is our getting two teeth pulled so we got Eric.  He found the problem but doesn't know why the system is wired that way nor why the batteries were turned off.  A classic example of why Zephyr is wired so strangely.  Different electricians do things differently.  When I get back to Zephyr--and the Sun is up, I plan on turning the batteries back on along with the charger and see what happens.  It's all greek to me at least so far.

Tracy wants to replace the stuffing in the rudder post today.  As can be seen by the picture, the fitting has got quite a bit of corrosion and it has leaked just a bit the entire time we have had Zephyr.  The "pros" here at Sea Marine tell us it's an easy job.  Yeah--right.  I took some pictures and Tracy took them to Mark--yard foreman.  He says it's a simple unbolt, pull out the old and push in the new and re-tighten the bolts.  Somehow, I think it will entail more than that but again, at least I'm here in a boat yard surrounded by "pros" that can help me should I screw something up. 

It's misting currently and will probably stay overcast though out the day. The weather has been incredible for the entire past month.  The forecast is for much more clouds and some sprinkles over the next few days.  I knew it couldn't last till April.