and worst “Chinese” food ever … i needed yet another shcackel for palapa so after aimee’s yoga we headed over to the marine store about 2 nm away in crowns bay. the new dingy is so fun to drive aimee insisted on coming. this made the trip more fun but instead of the 3$ shackel we ended up with 60$ worth of parts including some new polish that came highly recommended aimee...
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so aimee dragged me out of bed this am to watch the sunrise. it is one of our “anniversaries” 2 years, who would have guessed! we enjoyed coffee and vitamin drink while waiting on the sun. it took a but longer as we had a mountain in the way but eventually we got our sunrise! shortly after the sun, i looked off the stern and saw the massive disney cruise ship pulling into the dock...
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so i was able to finish up the head first thing without too much pain. i must say i highly recommend this raritan model. even better than the vacu-flush, larry, quieter, minimal water and no extra vacuum tank. i added a switch to give flush dry function but normally you just press the push button for about 5 seconds and woosh! everything is gone with pressure fresh water flush! i spent the...
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so today i worked all day on the head, cross checking the fedex website waiting on the 10$ per foot “super flex” hose that was necessary for the head project completion. i got everything in place replumed for pressure water to the forward heard, drilled holes everything. then at 430 my final part arrived. it took me another hour to get the hose installed and the head bolted down....
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so this morning at our morning meeting i put pool on the agenda for 1600. we had been here for 5 days and had yet to find the pool. around 2pm i decided we needed to push the pool event up to 3pm. just to confirm this decision one of the marina staff stopped by to let us know there was a pool and recommend we check it out. apparently we where working too hard! just to cement things he offered...
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not having the head to work on allowed me to focus most of my energy on building a new cockpit table to house the new engel freezer. for as long as i can remember i have dreamed of being able to flip up the table and pull cold beers and ice out of the cockpit table. but as i had always feared this is easier said than done. first i removed the table from the cockpit and put it on the dock. ...
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