Kevin's office improvement...

Kevin is working on developing his life long dream game - "hot potato". He spends hours at his laptop typing, which affects negatively his wrists. Thus, there is the homemade wrist pad made from Marina's mattress. Brilliant idea!!

30 more days in quarantine

They told us another 30 days.

Kevin Stotz

Day 8...quarentine.

Things have slowed down a bit here in sleepy Stuart.  The streets are not quite as busy and the people on the streets are few and far between.

We are keeping busy with boat projects, but the boat is ready to go.  Unfortunately the borders are closed to most countries.  In fact The Bahamas closed today, no getting in. 

So we stay in Stuart a bit longer.  Marina managed to lock the bathroom door without anyone being inside to unlock it.  That was a new boat project that sprung up today.

Replaced the alternator wires.  That was not as easy as it seemed either.  I am sure I dropped everything at least 3 times.  Magically all items landed under the engine just out of reach. 

Alternator back together and bathroom door unlocked.  It's really time to polish the stainless steel.  At least we dont' have to varnish today.

Waiting on the Fuel Pump.

The diesel repair shop said it should be ready today...but I called, and well, it's not.  Now it's tomorrow.  So that isn't too bad, better than a week.   But with the current state of affairs with the Coronoavirus, we may not be leaving anytime soon.

Went to the walmart today.  The food in the aisles are being depleted.  Although the alcohol distributors seem to be better able to handle the demand than the water and Klenex people.  No paper products, but plenty of beer and wine.

Finished Varnishing the boat.

During the past week we have varnished and varnished and varnished.  I believe we have 2 gallons of varnish applied to the boat.  This includes the rub rails, the toe rails, the cockpit, the galley, and the aft berth.  All of this was well deserved and much needed maintenance.   It always looks so nice when it is complete, but getting there takes a lot of stand paper, acetone and towels.  I'll up load pictures later.

We are expecting our fuel pump tomorrow, Tuesday.  This gives us hope in getting to the Bahamas before they shut the doors due to Coronoavirus.  Currently everything is shutting down.  All events of 50 people or more are cancelled, restaurants, bars, concerts.  You name it, it's called off until further notice.  Also the toilet paper seems to be all purchased up for some reason.  Noone can explain that. 

Now are are looking for a weather window to get across the gulf stream.

Sunset Bay Marina, Stuart FL

Since we have spent nearly 3 months here, I thought I better share some pictures of the place.  Our original intentions were to stay just 3 days.   Oh well.  We had our fair share of issues, Exhaust manifold, Fuel injector pump and a lot of tasks to fill in the waiting periods.  We also moved our weather station to the arch from the mast.  This was due to the fact that the weather station was interfering with the VHF radio signal.  took us 6 years to figure that out...:-)

Raccoons on the palms? Florida "monkey" in the park