Saturday, November 26, 2011

What do we do all day?

This is a question that non cruisers often ask. Well today was another exciting day in the life. We started by defrosting the fridge which caused Laurie to slice her finger on the holding plate. No big deal,we have found band aids essential and carry mass quantities.
Ok, on to the important stuff, we left our beautiful anchorage to get water and evacuate the "amazing tank of death"(waste holding tank). sounds simple enough. Well that is unless one forgets to check the bridge opening schedule and have to sit in 20-25knots of wind on a weekend in Ft Lauderdale waiting for the next opening. We made it through unscathed but we were instructed to go in a slip with a following current that is encased in concrete pilings. Twenty knots of wind,following current, can you say the word damage. So we requested to go to the face dock, easy as pie. Well the concrete pilings were challenging the anchor and keeping my cajones tucked up. After three go rounds we were securely tied to the dock,at least until we realized it was the wrong T-head. Round two went slightly better.
Now we are ready for "business", well almost. It took the marina personnel half an hour to find the fittings and another 20 minutes for me to figure out that someone had left another intake on the pumpout open. Oh, I forgot, the previous sanitation engineer didn't rinse the hose. I will leave that to your imagination. Finally we are done and off to another anchorage where the dinghy protocol is easier.
We arrive at the Middle River, 3.5 miles from our last locale. It is still blowing and the current is opposing so Kismet is doing her dance. Unfortunately she is trying to step on the neighbor's toes,not once but twice. On the third anchoring we called it good.
So the answer to the question is-not much but it almost took all day.

2 comments:

Grey Hound said...

It says it all!

Just like vacation!!!!!!

Hayden said...

BEEN HERE DON THIS....how perfect of a post. YES this is what it is like. Everything takes longer, it takes all freaking day to do 2 loads of laundry, it takes a morning to get water, and forget that tank of death as every freaking pumpout station in FLORIDA is broken or down for repairs. Give me a break. PS: Have you every seen a MEGAYACHT doing a pumpout...NOT....great post, thanks for the laugh