Thursday, February 27, 2020

In Dallas this week working at ETS

I am truly blessed to be invited to stay in the Yakel home with Dianne and Ken and the delicious home cooking while working at ETS office for the week.

skip, Dianne, Ken and Craig Yakel
Dianne made a Coconut Creme Pie
Ken with his note to remember...
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The ETS full time staff had their "school photos" made today.




Key West 6:38am boarding

Monday, February 17, 2020

NEWS UPDATE: Whiskey 3

I finally got the call... I have a mooring ball.
  I'll be moving over to the mooring field. 
W3 is my new location.
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Today i re-installed my Bimini top.  It had gotten a tear and had to be fixed.  Keys Quality Canvas sewed it for me.




TODAY i re-installed the Bimini.  it had a small tear.  I pulled it down Friday and got it repaired Saturday for $80 at Keys Quality Canvas.  he put a patch on the inside and a second one on the outside.  It took me about an hour to drop it all.  (remember the clear lens screen stuff) I piled the Clear surround on the deck.  Today it took about 4 hours to put it all back up.  Damn thing is tight as a banjo string.  Plus the stupid stainless poles are so tight and there's no give in them, i had to loosen one end to get the fabric on and then re-mount the brackets to stretch it back out.  'One step forward, two steps back, unscrew, cuss, re-screw.'

It's a big load off to have it patched.  I did not want the tear to spread or damage it.  damn thing cost me $10k originally....

I also went to NAPA and bought 5 gallons of 15W-40 heavy duty diesel oil to do oil changes on both the generator and the Perkins.  All is well.

tired and having happy hour.        -skip
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AFTER MY DENTAL CLEANING