The weekend went by too quickly. When I got home from work on Friday, my dock hose was hanging in the water and the nozzle was dripping, which makes me think somebody was recently using it and didn’t even bother to wrap it up correctly when they finished. Friday night was a laundry-chore night, 6 loads in total, but the benefit of the laundromat is being able to do them all at once and be finished in an hour and a half. While waiting, Mia and I ran to the store and got dinner, the timing was pretty much perfect.
Saturday we went down to Newport for Mia to have lunch with her aunt and grandma and i got to meet them briefly afterwards. The rest of the afternoon I showed Mia where I lived in Newport, we walked around balboa islands Main block, I had my first ever frozen banana, and we visiting my Huntington Beach office. There, we went to a vintage thrift store and I lucked out and got an awesome reservable vest and orange jacket (I call the Kenny jacket - from South Park) all for super cheap, like $45 total.
Finally, on Sunday I tried to convert my old bicycle to a cruiser style - that’ll be a different post - we tried to go to the pump out docks but both are currently broken, and I’m delicately flushing the manual toilet and using it sparingly, as in, not until I can pumpout again.
We decided to anchor because the wind and weather was favorable and we were already out there. I re organized the closet to be just hanging jackets, and I stacked my pants in the v berth. I prefer this over the overly-stuffed locker and pants I had to iron every time I wore anyways. I also soaked up and cleaned the bilge to check it out and see about recovering the screw the mechanics dropped. I didn’t find that, but I did find out the auto bilge pump isn’t working. Now, it could be the float switch, it could be the bilge pump, it could be the electrical. So there you have it, my good intentions reveal more problems. But it’s better to know about them than have something serious fail, break, or sink my boat.