It never does end does it?
I’m excited about having an autopilot again but I’m itching like crazy. I had to cut, grind, and re-shape the little bulk head I made for the linear drive to mount to. You can see the drive running horizontally at the top of the picture under my drill. I ran the vacuum as I was grinding fiberglass in my bedroom, but I still managed to get itching powder on everything. Remember itching powder from the joke shop when you were a kid, all it was was fiberglass powder, and its all over my room.
I need to go to Panama city on Monday to buy some mounting hardware and find a pulley for the new impeller pump for the little kubota. I’m getting really tired of Linton and will head to the San Blas soon. I was hitch hiking the other day and got picked up by the guy who owns San Blas Sailing, the local charter company. He is a really nice guy and I remember having a few beers with him years ago back in Cartagena, We may do some business. I really need to get paint on my old girl before i do anything like that. I didn’t think anyone would rob me with Splendid looking like she does but someone stole my dinghy anchor out of my dinghy. It was a really nice little Danforth. I gave away my other dinghy anchor a few months go and I’m bummed about it.
I don’t know if any of you are into Irish music or not but I’m listening to Live Ireland radio all day through my 3G connection, its cool. I know I’m not so cool, but its cool to me. It would be interesting to sail up there? My friends next door are from Ireland and pointed out some good anchorages on my charts. The water doesn’t get too cold as it’s in the Gulf Stream, it may be an option if I decide to sail North and East as opposed to West.
I would like to get my water maker situation figured out. I want to run a water maker and refrigerator off of the kubota and want everyone’s input. I can either try to run everything off of belts, or I can run one hydraulic pump off of a belt and run everything hydraulically, or I can run everything 110 and through the inverter. What happens if the inverter dies? I guess I’m trying to figure out what will be most dependable and efficient, please, let me hear your two cents worth.
Anyway, I’m off to scratch, scratch, scratch, and maybe have a beer or three.
Cheers.
Sail far and live slow.
Alex