Wednesday, May 27, 2009

Longtime between posts. We have been busy with divers over Memorial Day weekend and in between work, we trudge away at the tasks at hand. We have determined that the wires inside the mast to the top for the anchor light were probably fried and neither of us can get them to come out the top or the bottom of the chase in the mast. Ann has gone up the mast (50 + ft) two or three times and Darrell has one or two - it is really fun up there except when a boat comes by and makes a big wake - then you cling to it until the waters calm down.

According to all that we can test and all that we can read, most electrical items on the boat will eventually get replaced. They are just not built to withstand that kind of current over that short of a time. We have resigned ourselves to slowly but surely work on one item at a time - we sometimes get impatient and want her back the way she was! We are still VERY ahppy with the boat and very proud to be the owners. We started the porcess of getting all the documentation changed over - I know we should have started this sooner but didn't.

We're looking into making a trip home to Texas in early June. Plans have yet to be finalized but we'll be "landlubbers" for a few days then. We are looking forward to the chance to hug Jessica and tell her in person how very proud we are of her for making the cut for Dental Hygeine school!

More later,
Sparky and the gang