Friends

 4/3- Fishing Bay

  Waiting for our friends and the weather kind of pinned us down today. Our friends left Norfolk this morning and ran into some pretty rough weather. One of them had his engine die and they sailed in and got a tow boat to come out and help them to the dock. We had a great time getting together with these folks here. They are people we spent Thanksgiving and Christmas with. 

   In other news I had discovered that I had a leak a while ago. I check my bilges every morning and keep track of the amount of water in each. When I see water it’s always a challenge to figure out where it is coming from. I have been chasing this one for a while and it was starting to get worse, much worse. The water was salty so I thought it might be the stuffing box as nothing else would have the amount of water that was coming in. Finally today I found it. It was a split in the hose going to the expansion tank. It was right under the hose clamp so I had to wait for it to get bad enough for me to trace the drip. Hopefully I have it taken care of. 

   It was a nice morning but around noon there was a very abrupt change. The skies clouded up and the wind veered east and picked up and the temperature dropped like 20 degrees. This morning I was walking around in a t shirt and now I have like 3 layers on. That’s spring time I guess!!

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