6 December 2015

  Hard to believe that we have been living on the boat for 14 days now!  Some things are still new and yet others are getting more routine.

  We are still “Moving in” in that we are trying to find space for all the stuff we brought with us.  Most of that seems to be clothes.  I have gotten rid of a whole other pile of stuff as I don’t seem to need as much choice as I did when I was working.  Joan has some sorting left to go.

  We have been trying to find some things that are “normal” for us since “We live on a boat.”  We went to Mass last Sunday and that was nice for us and we bought a small TV.  We have so far watched one movie.  We need to buy an antenna so we can pick up the over the air signals.   However we also seem too busy in the evenings to want to sit and watch.

Finding Internet

  Probably our biggest evening deal is going someplace where we can get internet.  So far we have tried McDonalds, Starbucks, Chick-Fil-A and the public library.  The latter was the worst followed by Starbucks.  The best so far has been McDonalds and Chick-Fil-A.  One night we sat in McDonalds and felt obligated to buy something.  That only reaffirmed why we never eat there and why they might be going out of business.  The other night we sat in the parking lot for 2  hours using the signal. How very cruiser of us!  We got quite a few funny looks over the course of that time.  But hey it was free.  Guess that could be our life from now on.

  Once we get sorted out and moved in we will start in ernest on the boat projects.  We heard from one fellow cruiser that we need to jump on those as time really flies and we will be surprised on quickly it goes.

  We have had a couple of unintended projects.  Yesterday Joan was putting a new basket under the sink in our head.  She bumped the water line and it just started leaking.  So for the second time since we have been here she calls out “Honey we have a problem!”  I can tell you I hate it when she says that.  Guess we will need some other code word.

The darn connection was a pressure connection and you couldn’t get the darn thing to seal anymore.  So we needed to start running around and finding a new fitting.  We are lucky in two respects.

1. We have a hand pump so we could still use water and
2. We live in an area with lots of resources for marine parts.

New Aft Faucet

We had planned to replace the faucet at that sink so we both thought that since we were under there anyway let us just replace the whole thing.  Years  ago Joan had bought a faucet for the house she never put in so we had one we wanted to use anyway.  We went to 3 stores to find the right parts.  Ending up at the old local hardware store where the plumber specialist fixed us up right away.  Back to the boat to find out one of the parts did not work.  So back to store number 2 and then back to the old hardware store for the right part. So only 4 trips to the stores to do one plumbing job.  Not bad for us!  Joan did most of the work with pulling off the old faucet and drilling new holes and getting the water lines ready.  We did not have any plumbers putty so we just used Life caulk to seal it up.  All being said and done the new faucet looks great, works well and best yet it does not leak.

OK back to sorting storing and cleaning.