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A new boating season is upon us and it couldn't come soon enough. Its been a busy coupe of weeks loading the boat and doing all the chores associated with going away on a long vacay. This year we were fraught with repairs on Shaman. Things surely do come in threes, three items wrong with the dingy and 3 items wrong with the big boat. Oh well, it's all part of the adventure.
Dinghy repairs started with our trip to the Gulf Islands in May of this year where we first learned to row the dinghy. We were cruising along slowly around Wallace Island when "Bam" we hit a rock and tore the bottom shaft out of the outboard. 3 weeks later for the parts and the Tilt part of the outboard breaks. Another days for that part to come in. Then while cleaning up the little white pig, mike broke one of the tube fasteners.....wing and a prayer that it holds together.
Now to Shaman repairs....we waited patiently for our new front windows, side windows and dinghy seat, to be replaced with new - yesterday (Friday) it was all put back together. We had a water leak and we were losing @ 100 gallons a week in water - after Betty was blamed for leaving the shower trickling and taps running, again, yesterday (Friday), Mike discovered the hot water tank leaking through fittings. Off he goes to get "the" fitting, and when he fixes the leaky fitting, it springs a leak in two other places - off again to get two more fittings and spares. That's using the noggin Mike! The generator keeps on shutting down but good news, we bought a new board last month - this morning, it ran for a bit and shut off, guess its time to put that expensive new board in. Hopefully that is 3 things and we're good to go now and not an omen of things to come!
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