We're sitting here in Mears Marina in Annapolis. It's been raining for the past two days. So what do liveaboards do? We don't work, so every day is a Saturday, and when it rains, it's a rainy Saturday. Unlike living in a house, there's no grass to mow, hedges to trim, or rooms to paint. I certainly have a lot of boat projects to work on but practically all of them involve being outdoors and painting something.
So our lazy day routine is to sleep late, eat breakfast, surf the internets, watch some TV (I'm getting hooked on Judge Judy), wash dishes, and write this blog. I needed to do something more yesterday, and while standing in the helm station ordering parts for our Simrad electronics I noticed how nasty our helm station was. For our loyal readers, you recall that this boat is 30 years old, and sat on the hard in Connecticut for almost 20 years. The helm station controls were corroded. So I got out the metal polish and spent a couple of hours (yes, you read that right) polishing the knobs and instruments and engine controls.
Sometime soon we need to get out to shop for a new refrigerator. Our old Sanyo with the cold plates needs to go. It's rusted and we don't like the cold plates, which accumulate considerable amounts of ice and is very messy to defrost. We looked at marine units at the Annpolis boat show and weren't impressed. They switch automatically between 12 volt and 110 volt, which is nice, but a small one runs about $1,800 and it looked cheaply made. We decided that a regular apartment sized frost free unit would be better and we can replace it five or six times for the price of the marine unit. We spend a lot of time in marinas plugged in, and under way we'll run it off an inverter. Maybe we'll shop for that today. Maybe not. Judge Judy might be on.
So our lazy day routine is to sleep late, eat breakfast, surf the internets, watch some TV (I'm getting hooked on Judge Judy), wash dishes, and write this blog. I needed to do something more yesterday, and while standing in the helm station ordering parts for our Simrad electronics I noticed how nasty our helm station was. For our loyal readers, you recall that this boat is 30 years old, and sat on the hard in Connecticut for almost 20 years. The helm station controls were corroded. So I got out the metal polish and spent a couple of hours (yes, you read that right) polishing the knobs and instruments and engine controls.
Sometime soon we need to get out to shop for a new refrigerator. Our old Sanyo with the cold plates needs to go. It's rusted and we don't like the cold plates, which accumulate considerable amounts of ice and is very messy to defrost. We looked at marine units at the Annpolis boat show and weren't impressed. They switch automatically between 12 volt and 110 volt, which is nice, but a small one runs about $1,800 and it looked cheaply made. We decided that a regular apartment sized frost free unit would be better and we can replace it five or six times for the price of the marine unit. We spend a lot of time in marinas plugged in, and under way we'll run it off an inverter. Maybe we'll shop for that today. Maybe not. Judge Judy might be on.
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