The Thingy Is Connected To The Doohickey, The Doohickey Is Connected To The Whatsits, . . . .

SHIP'S LOG:

Ah Yes, the Doohickey, the Thingamabob, The Whatsits, and all those other little thingies. Yes, when something goes out of whack on a boat, it isn't always as simple as in other places and everything seems to have a strange name.

The first little thing that went "wrong" was a 1" washer that fit of the end of the hose that was attached to the pump that blew up the dinghy. It went away. Where, I have no idea. Indeed, it could still be somewhere in the dinghy but an exhaustive search turned up nothing. This means, that at some time in the future, I will sit in the dinghy and see it just sitting there, mocking me! The front tube of the dinghy, the one with the slow leak, was completely deflated and need to be pumped up. This meant that I had to find some gasket material (Thank you Mr. Beebe), cut out several 1" squares, round them off, cut out the proper diameter hole in the center and fit them on the fixture at the end of the hose which is attached to the pump that blows up the dinghy. I had to cut several of them as I have no idea exactly how thick the missing washer is/was and it had to be thick enough to create a tight seal between the port and the fixture at the end of the hose which is attached to the pump that blows up the dinghy so that no air will escape during the process and the front tube will indeed blow up(that is fill with air). It took an hour or so but mission accomplished - it took 2 of the five washers to make the proper seal.

One of the cabinet doors in the saloon pulled its hinge(bottom) from the frame and needs to be screw back in. The wood is old and dry and so it required a little wood filler to quite naturally fill the holes and cracks so that new screws could be put in place and hold the hinge tight. I am not quite sure where the former screws went. They don't seem to be inside the cabinet nor on the floor nor on or in the settee. It is strange how sometimes, things on a boat just go off into another dimension. You put something down in a particular place and when you look for it, it is gone. At some later date, it turns up in an entirely different place and you have no idea how it got there. The OUTER LIMITS definitely operates on boats.

The engine room blower is also out. It is a fan that sucks in fresh air when the engine is running. It quite today when I started the engine to charge the batteries. Probably just a loose wire. Now if I can only find where the blower is. I will look in the most unlikely and in accessible spot first . . .where I am sure to find it!

I didn't make Stuart today. My box of spares is on BRIGADOON and Brad's brother showed up yesterday and they took off for the weekend. Looks like Monday will be get-a-way day.