Day 449 Running in place.

Today was a day of running but not getting much done.  We went in search of bungs.  These are tapered wood plugs that are used to plug holes that might occur if one of your through hulls blows out.  It's more common than we thought.  You are supposed to keep one tied to each through hull so that if anything should happen, you have the plug right there.  We hit every place we could think of with no success.  I need 16 of them to take care of all of the ones we have.  I'll have to order and have then shipped in I guess.

We stopped in at the Honda place to see about the generator.  Not that we need it now that we are out of the water.  Nope, not done yet.  They called an hour later and told us it was ready to be picked up.  Go figure.

Off to the storage building to pick up the Hydrovane and a fan(getting hotter here).  We plan on starting the installation tomorrow or Thursday.  Since we have the bottom painters here tomorrow, it will probably have to wait a day or so, plus we will need to have some teak pads made to go between the unit and the hull so that the bracket will fit snugly and not shift when it is under load.

Into Fastenal to find locking nuts for the rudder shaft and steering gear.  They didn't have nuts to fit my bolts, so I just bought two more bolts and locking nuts.  Problem solved.

Off to see Brion Toss about coming down to fix the sheave in the mast head.  We left a message with Christian, his wife and left for lunch at Shanghai(YUM).  Gordon(works for Brion) showed up later at Zephyr and told me they would be by tomorrow to check out the rigging to see why we are having such a problem getting the mainsail to the top of the mast.

More boats are coming and going every day here.  We have one right beside us.  It came in by truck!  The boatyard men took their lift and pulled it right off the truck and put in on stands right next door.  This is definitely a busy yard.  They pull and launch more boats here in a day than Sea Marine does on a month.  There's activity all over the place and no shortage of people to talk to if you have problems or questions.

We unpacked the Hydrovane and stowed it in the forward compartment till we can get to it.  Hopefully in a day or two.  Once it is done, I can head off for Denver to take the car back home.

Tonight, a warm quiet evening.