We flew down to the boat this weekend - hadn't been there in several months!! The Escape had lost it's cover - the FBO employee told me that it had gotten battered in 50-60 mph winds we had several weeks ago. They have the keys to the vehicle - so they nicely took the cover off and left our straps inside. And the battery was dead. I mean dead-dead. Took a while, but they jumped it off with their courtesy van. Just a "working" weekend - got our TSA badges renewed so that we can go onto the ramp at New Bern, then headed on to Oriental. The water in the boat (I think we carry 240 gallons in 4 separate tanks) had gotten "stinky" over the winter. So, we pumped it out and treated the tanks with a little old-fashioned bleach. Then filled the tanks back up with nice, fresh Oriental water. Ran the engine a while and made sure everything was up to snuff... there was a small craft advisory for winds - so we decided to stay put in the marina since we really didn't have anywhere we wanted to go.
Had a couple of really nice meals at the local places....and buzzed home this morning. Actually, the weather was too low this morning when we flew home. When we flew out of New Bern the clouds were 600ft overcast - and it didn't get any better at Eagles Landing. So we ended up just flying to Asheboro where the weather was better and put the airplane in a hangar there to set out the rains for the next few days. Good excuse to fly later this week to pick it up!
Foggy morning at the marina:
1 comment:
Pretty picture...I kinda like rainy weekends...even camped in a few...I like rain pattering on tents too...probably the same in a boat...
Love,
T
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