Were sitting on a bouy at Sucia Island state park enjoying a perfect evening. we kayaked to shore when we arrived (Dinghy is DOA) and spent five hours hiking and exploring the island. Not sure how it can get much better than this. Beautiful weather, great scenery and except for the dink, everything is working, so far! Well almost everything is working. The aft bilge pump automatic float is not working for some reason and there is no way i am getting my hands into that small space to work on it, not sure how in the world they ever got it into that spot at the factor. They must have built the boat around it because its about 2 feet below the bedroom floor, in the keel, yep 5 inches wide at the most and access is through a 6 inch by 10 inch floor hatch. Blocking the way is four other hoses and some wiring and you have to squeeze between the bed and the wall to get to the hatch. This is a one handed blind operation to get the float out, I guess it will have to wait, hopefully I don't spring a leak cause it won't come on automatically.
I saved another boat. Rhonda and Ricks boat was going down stern first at the dock in Bellingham. Another boater there commented that he thought something was wrong because Ricks swimstep was under water. Sure enough he had about 3 feet of water in the bilge and the bilge pump was not working.
So I jury rigged a water pump I had, god knows why, and hooked it up to his battery which was just inches from going under, and in about 90 minutes we had most of the water out and the swim step was back up where it belonged in fresh air. I left the pump there as their was still plenty of water to get out and Chris and I wanted to be on our way and we still had to fuel up.
So I will have Rick ship the pump back to me later, Cheap salvage operaiton.
Smooth run over after getting out of Bellingham. that must be the only windy place in Washington right now. It just never stopped blowing while we were there but once out of Bellingham bay it was flat calm.
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