Friday, July 20, 2012

Rained hard last night and woke up to a very wet morning. My leak is back!!! I am quite vexed. Just not sure where the water is coming from. Is it rainwater? If so where the heck is it leaking in at? I shut off all the pumps to see if the inflow is reduced any and of course at the same time the rain stopped. I pumped out the collection point three times and the third time no more water came in? Its dry now. I bored a hole in the floor in the back bedroom to see if there was water collecting in that space but of course the spot I chose to bore the hole is blocked by tubing and hoses so I really can't see much but it does look relatively dry. The Mainship Builders and designers should be ashamed of themselves. They laid carpet and then built the bed the cabinets and put the aft shower and head insert right on top of the carpet. No way to pull it up to access the floorboards without cutting the carpet and padding. Oh well, Chris wanted new carpets anyway. I will have to enlarge the hole and add an access hatch in that section of the floor to see where the water is pooling and running from and to. Steve and Michelle headed back across the boarder today, Chris and I are at the North Sannich Yacht Club Reciprocal dock. It is located in Tsehum (pronounced SEE um) Harbor in Blue Herron Basin. Its a bit tricky getting in, lots of day markers marking multiple different channels going into no less than four different bays and marinas but Green markers must be kept to your port as you enter or it gets real shallow. The dock was full up when we arrived and we were starting for plan B when we saw a sailboat casting off so we lucked out and go their spot on the dock. A short while later another sailboat arrived and is side tied to us. Their is 260 feet of dock space but only 15 amp power. We had a little problem with our plugin, a bit of a loose connection in the box but we getting a charge on the batteries and that's all we really need. The Reciprocal guy for NSYC says its really more like 10 amp power than 15 so it does not take much to blow the circuit breaker. The dock is very nice, very wide concrete floats that double as their youth sailing facility. their were 25 kids down here most of the afternoon for a summer sailing camp. Looked like tons of fun. Tomorrow we will explore Sydney and relax a bit, we have two days of moorage here for just 5 bucks a night. The NSYC club house is quite nice with a restaurant that gets good reviews. It's not open tonight because of a wedding rehersal dinner party but we may try it tomorrow night.

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