Not much action today

Well, our air in the fuel line issue for the starboard motor is resolved! As it turns out, the guys who polished the fuel in Jacksonville failed to tighten down the fittings when they finished in the tank. One side could be turned with your fingers. I'd like to offer whomever is responsible a switch kick in the nuts for the amount of time we have wasted on this over the past two weeks. Is anyone else seeing the theme here? It's incompetence. The helm still leaks, it has leaked since the guy who knew what he was doing assembled it and continues to this day. It will be taken out and rebuilt over the winter. The guy who originally installed the system failed to even include a reservoir in this hydraulic system, so I suppose when it is reinstalled we can have it done properly. A cummins expert was here today, but didn't know how to adjust the idle when I asked him about it. $174/hour and the response was "I think there is an adjustment either on or inside..." and this is where I stopped listening. They were going to look it up in a book when they got back to the shop and then call us. Still waiting on that call.

Ever see groundhog day? That is my life. I am itching to get to the part where Bill Murray throws caution to the wind and embraces his existence. I hope it is equally as blissful for me. I can take walks, but there is nowhere to go and little to see once you have taken in the waterfront and the Old Towne District. Aside from patio seating or take-out, everything is still closed for COVID.

When this trip is over, I am going to choke the first person who mentions the damn weather. I have motorcycled through flooding rain, wind storms, heat and drought with forest fires, thunder and lightning, and even snow in the mountains west of Calgary (on a sport bike no less). The Woods brothers and I did a 6000km loop through Newfoundland & Labrador last summer that necessitated dangling our bikes from a helicopter to cross a wash-out, and I don't remember a single moment where we checked let alone obsessed over the weather. Whatever happened, we were riding on.

Some neighbors in the marina ignored the small craft warning this morning and attempted to cross the Chesapeake. Apparently, the 4-5 footers turned them back. The weather didn't look that bad here in the marina. BTW- NOAA buoy app called for 1-2' waves today while BuoyWeather correctly predicted the 5' seas, so take that for what it is worth.