February 17 2014
Instead of getting Mia flowers I got her a plant. It had to stay in the head (bathroom) of the boat over the weekend when we were gone, the rad thing is that it drips. I read that this is mostly due to the humidity around it…which makes sense because it’s inside of a boat. The weather on Monday, Presidents’ Day, was pretty cruddy for sailing but great for walking on the empty beach. It was cold and windy. We walked from the boat to the Hermosa pier and warmed ourselves up with coffee and gourmet tacos. I saw this box-truck parked and it had crazy pictures on the side.
The water pump fiasco, as it became, required the second trip out to blast off the bolts, then a third trip out on Saturday (while I was out of town) to replace the bolts connecting the water pump to the engine. Also, a water separator was being replaced. I never received a phone call over the weekend so I figured everything went just fine.
I was proven wrong at about 8am Monday morning when I was woken up from a call asking when they can enter the boat today to replace the last bolt, due to one falling into the bilge and failing to find it. At this point, I was pretty frustrated and tired of hiding away all my bedding and storage bins and carpet for them to work, and then reconstructing everything each night. But, it had to get done.
Now that the water pump job is done, a 2 hour quoted job that took 4 days and could paralyze my boat with this supposed lost screw in the bilge, they warned me that the oil pan is corroding and needs to be replaced.