While our engine alarm woes dragged on we continued with paperwork, bills, taxes, etc. We were nibbling away around the edges of our list, but were still in limbo until our engine alarm problems were resolved. I bought individual heat exchanger zincs at West until I got it right. The amount of corrosion on the original one in less than a month was pretty impressive, so I ordered a lot of replacements for about 15% of what West was charging.
I still had not been successful getting the dingy registered in GA, partially because we didn't really live there, yet they (and every other state) insisted it be registered somewhere. I finally got someone on the phone, and apparently the receipt from West was not acceptable proof of ownership (?), so I had to fill out yet another form. Finally, the day before we left we got the tags in the mail. Now all we have to do is mark the registration numbers on both sides of the bow and place the stickers.
We were running out of things to do until the engine was fixed so I even got to sorting our DVDs. I'm sure you understand cable TV is problematic on a moving boat, and satellite for a boat is still outrageous (at least to us). We actually have the boat satellite equipment from the previous owner but have never turned it on, and in fact would sell it if we got the chance. So we watch disks, and a little bit of DirecTV on the iPad if we have a decent signal.
When we moved out of the house we lost the walk in closet for a DVD library. I finally gave in and got rid of all the DVD and Blu-ray cases, fitting all our disks in several binders. Before the boat I mostly had movies on disk, but on the boat TV series have dominated. I'm basically running a UHF TV station on the boat (although I don't accept any advertising). But even without all the cases the number of disks in the main cabin bothers Heather as clutter.
With all the new series we had acquired we needed couple more cases. Only the newest case had removable sleeve pages, so adding a page in the right spot to keep things organized was possible without moving 100 other disks. I ordered a second case with the removable sleeves, even bigger than the first, and it now holds all the series we've already burned through at least once over the last three years. It holds 400 disks and it's almost full.
This made room in the other binders to get the movies back into alphabetical order, and another for active series that I had already ditched the cases for. Now I like to keep active series seasons in the case until we finish so I can keep them straight. That leaves a few dozen cases around, so I cleared the bin above the printer to hold them all when the boat is traveling, since they might fall off the shelves from wakes or waves. All this DVD organizing took over six hours straight, and I now know that we have over 1500 disks. Yikes.
The next week we got the new ignition switch for the engine. It got rid of some of the twitchiness during starting that had been present since we bought the boat, but it did not fix the low oil pressure alarm not alarming. After more delays getting the techs back on the boat they finally dug around using the electrical schematic. In chasing down one idea they found two wires near the fuel lift pump behind the heat exchanger that had not been reconnected. Success, although I'm still a little foggy on the wiring connection between that pump and the oil pressure sending unit. The delay was annoying, but I learned a bit more about the engine electrical system.
While we were waiting and doing chores a Santa Maria replica docked down by the office. Heather did the tour. One of the actors involved with the tours was missing a leg and had this incorporated into his costume. Pretty impressive.
We got the diver to scrub the bottom of the boat one last time, and Heather scrubbed the topsides. Our boat was looking much better. Time to leave!
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