Beautiful day to work

What a great day to work! Warren is repainting the outboard motor with anti-barnacle paint. The reason for this is because Boot Key really has some of the fastest growing sea creatures. We also are putting it on the bottom of the dinghy.

  Here's a update on the dental problem. Last Monday we rented a car and drove to Miami so Warren could get a root canal.  What a hassle, the dentist at Gable dental couldn't find the last root so she sent us to Dr Gracia. A specialist.... what a nice guy, fast and efficient and the authority on the best cupcakes around.  He treated us to a pack of Misha mini cupcake. While I was waiting for Warren I kept watching all these people going in this cupcake place. Now I know why, they are the most moist and delicious we have had. :)
So then Friday we went back for the crown fitting.
Now we wait until the 12th for the crown to be put on.

We also sent the parts and metal pieces off to Dad
so he can make us a new top for the v-drive,  hopefully it will be done at the same time. When that's done we'll be able to check the oil in the v-drive. Why someone filled it with epoxy we don't know. A new dip stick was only $35 we picked it up in Fort Lauderdale Friday.  Also we'll change the oil, who knows when that was changed last.  Warren can't believe he missed this.
I told him he had a lot of broken stuff to fix so the stuff that was working was not on his mind.

Sammie has a problem with his nose.... he keeps putting it in things :)

delayed

 I am learning the meaning of patience! Warren needs some dental work done so we"ll be here for at least two more weeks. The dentist is in Miami so we thought we would just sail to Dinner Key which is in Biscayne Bay. The dentist is an easy walk of 1.9 miles, sounds great, right! So this morning we are ready to leave (again) and we put the boat in gear and it starts making weird noises. We just had the prop and bottom cleaned so there are no barnacles.  Warren thought it was coming from the "V" drive and is now going through it.  So now we are delayed again.....but there is a happy spot in all of this mess.  We found a stow way, he jumped ship from another boat. The only thing we can figure is that the boat he was on was either going home for the rest of the year or for good. We've met so many people here from all around the world and a lot of them going home or are ending their cruising lifestyle.  So we guess he still wants to do some traveling.  And there is just no way to tell who let him go.  There are inflatables going by the boat at all hours of the day and night he could have hitched a quick ride on any of them to jump ship.   I just hope we don't disappoint him.

What happened

We are so bad, sorry I haven't written in a while. We never made it out of the harbor, the brand new fresh water pump on the engine went bad.  Warren was doing the final engine check and found anti-freeze in bilge so....... to make a long story short the pump is fixed and we have two spares and we also worked on many other projects while waiting for another weather window.  The winds have been blowing out of the east like crazy. There is a window this weekend that we'll try for. Of course as soon as we said this,  Warren's tooth started acting up and he needs to see the dentist for a root canal, so we are going to make a quick trip to Miami.  I'll let you know if we get to leave this time, I promise!

This is the new LED lights on the arch

Manatees by the dinghy dock, mommy and the kids.