Days at St. Augustine, FL - relaxation plus projects

At St. Augusting FL for a few days....   Days of relaxation (from moving each day)...but days are still filled with projects....

Yesterday (Tuesday)was a busy, busy day...here at anchor(mooring) in St. Augustine.

My project list got a real work-over. 

I cleaned up the deck after all the moving South.

1.) flaking, and storing the stays'l, and bagging it...

2.) put the whisker pole back in the rail chocks;

3.) Gased up the dinghy (5 Gallons);

4.) Made about 2 hours worth of R.O. fresh water (at 5 GPH);

5.) Changed the carbon impregnated potable water filter;

6.) Tested the accumulator and found it had a broken bladder... so then substituted the accumulator from the aft head for the main accumulator (tested OK); 

7.) Ordered stuff from West Marine (VHF radio; accumulator; dinghy all around light, etc.)

8.) We called and got a "pump out" for the aft head holding tank... 

9.) I took the dinghy into the marina for non-ethanol gasoline in all the jerry cans ($48).  

10.) When I returned from the "gas run" I washed the grime, and 'diesel butt' off the entire hull at the water line in the late afternoon at slack tide.

We thought about going into town for a nice dinner... but that got completely reversed, as we decided to do marinated porkchops on the grille, with mashed potatoes, and sweet peas....

11.) then we did laundry at the marina lounge last night before NCIS.

Good decision... now we can walk up to West marine, and into town today..without that chore hanging over. 

Going for breakfast WED morning...up at our favorite Greek restaurant near hwy 1.

Dean at San Marcos Fort - with Mortar
(fortunately the one's we had in 'Nam' were smaller)

:)