Why isn't the boat in the water, you may ask?

Beats us!  As you can see, the river level is no longer a threat (and hasn't been in a week) but, there are the docks, still lined up waiting to be put in the water.

Apparently, the yard crew had a run-in with a dozen or 30-packs of Bud and almost nothing was accomplished this past week.  With no docks in the water, there is no place to put boats as they are launched.  I registered a complaint with Karen, who manages the yard, and we'll see how far that gets us.

There were many angry sail boaters around the yard today.  Sail boaters can get vicious and we heard lots of comments like "Aw shucks" and "my wife isn't going to be happy!"  Most of them relived their anger about not being launched by waxing their boats.  That 'ill show them!

Meanwhile, Darryl, husband of yard manager Karen, was taking advantage of the great weather on Sunday by hauling in a lot of fish.  He told us he caught many white and yellow perch and of course, catfish.  We asked him what he used for bait and he said, "just ole garden worms." Nice to know.

By now, we're running out of things to do.  This weekend, we mounted the boat's Coast Guard documentation number plate in the bilge against the hull on the port side.  We also installed new temperature sensors on both engines so that now the oil pressure and water temperature sensors are compatible with the new gauges. Then we took the stern light apart and measured the bulb so we could order a replacement LED for it. Oh, we also filled the water tank.

On Saturday, we noticed a discrepancy between the readings on the port-side gauges in the salon and the ones on the bridge.  Everything look OK so we decided to sleep on that little problem.

On Sunday, we noted that when we turned on the lower station port-side ignition switch, the gauges on the port side on the bridge functioned oddly.  Also, the low pressure light for the port v-drive didn't light up.  We investigated and found a broken wire that runs from the salon ignition switch to the instruments on the bridge.  That wire makes the bridge instruments functional even when the the engines are started from the salon.

We found that wire hanging with the ring terminal broken off up behind the bridge helm. Once we reconnected it, the upper helm gauges worked perfectly.

The interior of the boat is ready to be cleaned and I guess, not being in the water, that's the next thing we'll do.  Maybe we'll even have time to wax the hull.