We are up early once again as we have both fully adjusted to the cruising lifestyle of early to bed, early to rise. It was a very windy night, a good one to be tied to a dock.
Around 10 o'clock John and Rosemary stop by for a visit so we invite them and Comocean over for coffee. Just as everyone is getting seated in the salon, we discover that two of the cushion on the starboard side of the boat are soaked. Not a good thing at all (it has been raining lots), Julie moves the coffee social out to the cockpit while Dawson starts to look for the source of the leak. The 1st suspect is a poorly closed porthole, but this is not the case, our minds now wander to more serious things like leaking chain plates (not a good thing) or hull deck joint (horribly scary thought). It is amazing but you always start to think of the worst. Dawson is steady removing cushions pulling everything out of the starboard settee storage, until he finds a 2.5 gal water storage container stuffed in the forward storage compartment. Over time a leak has developed in one of the corners and it has leaked about a 1/4 of its water.
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| The offending container |
The rest of the day is spent doing some work on the boat, reading and all the other stuff we do until lo and behold it is time for dinner. We eat dinner on the boat tonight as we are ahead on "eat and drink your dock bill away" plan. The day before we had purchased some fresh Wahoo from the local fishing guide and today is the day for eating it. Julie looks up cooking Wahoo on the internet to get some ideas and then we grill the fish under the broiler as it is too windy to bar-b-que. It is superb!
A game of Kings Cribbage and a coffee and it is the end of another cruising day.
Cheers
Dawson and Julie
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