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So it's Betty's BDay here shortly and she has not had the fun of the living on the boat part of boating as of yet. Lots of work but little reward. So we took off the other day headed for no where in particular in no particular hurry. I delayed leaving for a day simply because it was late in the morning and freaking hellishly hot. No big deal. The front AC works just fine. That's the one 25K unit that keeps the salon and all the other not stateroom areas cool and quite comfy.
I still need to replace the rear 10K unit that maintains the stateroom temps. I am waiting for the Annapolis sail show next month to look at replacements for that one. There is so little room in that compartment, makes the hole the generator fits in look spacious. However as someone else looked in there and remarked on how much room is available in there. Different prospective. I was in there working on the fuel lines not to long ago and it is tight.
I think I have mentioned this before but Steel Breeze is a wind machine, meant to both harness the wind for movement and ventilate the boat while at anchor. Well the ventilation part doesn't work very well when you are tied to the dock and the wind is anywhere but from the bow of the boat. And the movement part doesn't work at all when there is >5 knots TWS.
So we made it off moorings with no issues and puddled down the Potomac and made it to Colonial Beach, a little place we've been meaning to stop by for some time now. We're headed to Leonardtown later today, maybe. The very last time we took off for an actual trip somewhere in Amadeus we were headed to Leonardtown. Never made it, had a zero wind day, and I started freaking out cuz the engine was being balky. So we should be able to complete that trip either today or tomorrow. That only took 3 years and a new boat.
It's breakfast burritos time. Then some discussion of the days activities. As we appear to be the only transient boat we have 100% use of the golf cart here at the marina. Found a great little restaurant that did excellent sushi and a great steak last night.
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