December 20
It's not feeling a lot like Christmas here...it's friggin'
hot and we are getting frazzled...still stuck here. Tomorrow we hope to get our
boat papers. That 4 feet of snow is starting to look not so bad.
Gail [C-Soul] has
been sick in hospital for three days...we are visiting her in hospital
tonight...a bit of an infection from a bite, possibly. Hopefully she should be
coming "home" tomorrow and we can plan our crossing.
On a different note, Sue H, I've had just about all I can
handle from the Universe, so I hope it backs off a bit!! We had to find a
bigger charger for our batteries and we've been charging for 2 days. Thank god
for shore power. The small trickle charger bit the dust and while investigating
the type and source that we needed, we found that a trickle charger will kill
deep cycle batteries...funny, that information didn't turn up last year when we
were trying to get them fixed!
Today, after 3 days of battling with the 8-hp motor that got
'fixed' in Tobermory, and finding that there are NO parts for 2-stroke Yamaha
engines available in the USA or Canada...they aren't sold here anymore, and
screwing around with jury-rigging 4-stroke parts, we finally had to bite the
bullet and buy a new Honda 5-hp motor. It should be here tomorrow... Merry friggin' Christmas!
Hope yours is looking better!
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