Two men and a mathematician

Fogged in AGAIN in New Orleans.  This time the fog didn't lift until about 1pm.  We had great plans today to finally leave LA.  We have been travelling in LA for 14 days!! So plans changed and we had to stay another day.  Lori and I decided it would be a partial spa day, kinda.  Both of us were in desperate need of a hair coloring.  Way to messy to do on the boat so we thought we would make use of the marina facilities. Lori colored my hair and I returned the favor.  This is the first box color I have ever used and both of us came away very pleased.  Sorry, no before and after photos.

When I returned to the boat Brent was changing fuel filters and we had spent the better part of yesterday trying to track down a small coolant leak.  We thought a new set of eyes may see something we could have missed and Ken came over and sure enough we found it.  Of course to get to the hose clamp that needed tightening was nearly impossible; but smaller hands could maybe squeeze into the area and get the right wrench on it.  Lucky me, I was "your it"!!  

                                                                         Success!!!

It was then time to check to see if that was the fix.  We fired up the engine and to our surprise it seems like that did it. Wahoo!!

With the help of our friends on Randy Jo, we did move the boat into a slip today within the same marina. For the last two nights we had to tie up on the end of a dock (on the T) that had no power supply. So we ran the generator all night for two nights in a row. When the fog pinned us down this morning, we decided that we'd move to a regular slip with 50 amp service and give the gen a rest. 

Sunday Funday!!  Just think for the past 30 years I have spent my Sunday afternoons working on school plans.  

 


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