it's a slow morning. jim and i shared a cigar mango and then a rosario (i think that's the name of it). and we also tried a cream apple which is creamy inside.
later in the day...this is been an exhausting day. we raised and wrapped the jib which is a big sail that needed to be wrapped around its pole instead of laying on the deck. just as we started to work on it the wind came up and while jim was doing something rachel and i tried to pull in the lines so help the wrapping process. then we decided to unpack and inflate the dinghy to make sure it was okay and the motor worked. we planned on it being a half day job but it was more like all day. inflating it wasn't so hard or time consuming just a lot of pumping with the foot on the foot pump. tossing it in the water wasn't so difficult either, but getting the motor hoisted out of it's storage place and onto the dinghy took some time. fortunately jim had designed the process into canvas roof cover called a biminey. when the biminey is unsnapped and the solar panels are rotated slightly the whole cover tips forward giving him enough room the hoist the motor out of the cubby hole on a pulley system. the snafu came when he discovered the plug from the gas canister to the boat didn't fit the motor. that meant we had to drive into kapaa to the marine store and back (over an hour roundtrip). with all the trips back and forth in the kayaks, hosing them off and inflating then deflating them the day flew by. rachel is picking lori up now.
later in the day...this is been an exhausting day. we raised and wrapped the jib which is a big sail that needed to be wrapped around its pole instead of laying on the deck. just as we started to work on it the wind came up and while jim was doing something rachel and i tried to pull in the lines so help the wrapping process. then we decided to unpack and inflate the dinghy to make sure it was okay and the motor worked. we planned on it being a half day job but it was more like all day. inflating it wasn't so hard or time consuming just a lot of pumping with the foot on the foot pump. tossing it in the water wasn't so difficult either, but getting the motor hoisted out of it's storage place and onto the dinghy took some time. fortunately jim had designed the process into canvas roof cover called a biminey. when the biminey is unsnapped and the solar panels are rotated slightly the whole cover tips forward giving him enough room the hoist the motor out of the cubby hole on a pulley system. the snafu came when he discovered the plug from the gas canister to the boat didn't fit the motor. that meant we had to drive into kapaa to the marine store and back (over an hour roundtrip). with all the trips back and forth in the kayaks, hosing them off and inflating then deflating them the day flew by. rachel is picking lori up now.
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