On Thursday 6/10 We left our hotel in Savannah to head back to Darien to check on the boat progress. No word yet on whether the shaft will be competed today yet. We debated on whether we should attempt to stay on the boat for a night or two but by mid afternoon the heat and bugs got to us enough again and we decided by early afternoon to go ahead and get a hotel room again, this time in Brunswick. Renee had a tutoring session at 2pm for her math class.
It was a very uneventful day; so much so that neither of us took a single picture. We are both anxious and ready to hear some news on getting the boat back in the water. We did go out to dinner at Longhorn and enjoyed splitting a 'Cowboy' steak that was very yummy.
The hotel (Days in Brunswick/St Simon) was nice enough and had a nice pool but there were so many kids and people swimming in it when we got back to the hotel that it just did not look appealing. Hoping tomorrow we get some news and things will be more exciting :-)
On Friday 6/11 Erik awoke early and took Riva to Jekyll Island for a sunrise walk on the beach . It was a very nice way to start the day. Afterwards, he went back to the marina to check again to see if any shaft or props magically appeared. Additionally, while the boat is out of the water he decided to go ahead and replace the anodes on the bottom of the boat. We figured that would be the nice thing to do for Jennifer, the woman purchasing the boat, so that she would not have to worry about that for another year or so. Erik tried to find the correct anodes (aluminum ones must be used on our aluminum boat) at a local hardware and boat supply house in Darien but they only stocked zinc anodes. This forced him to go to West Marine and pay top dollar for what we could have gotten for half as much online :-( When he arrived back at the marina with the anodes the new shaft had arrived...yay! The prop/machine shop had also balanced and tuned both of our props making them look shiny and new. Erik also removed the transducer for the Simrad chart plotter since that was not part of the sale of the boat but needed to be taken off while it is out of the water.
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| Dawn at Jekyll Island |
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| Starting to get a little more color |
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| Ah...yes....God is good |
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| She's such a good puppy |
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| there she blows! |
The mechanics/boat yard guys were both busy putting a final coat of paint on another boat and needed to take advantage of the dry weather to get that completed prior to working on ours. Shortly after lunch they had completed the paint job and came over to install the new shaft and the two newly tuned props on Aquaholic....Yay! This work was completed at about 3pm and the main yard man debated on going ahead and putting us in the water . But, it was decided that since we would not be leaving the marina at that hour, and tide was low, that we would just wait and be launched Saturday morning at 8:30am. We are making progress!! We were both excited and eager. The only issue now is that the weather peeps are calling for a good chance of storms (some strong ones) to start by very early afternoon tomorrow. hmmm....we will have to keep our eyes on it and make a decision whether to go or stay tomorrow after launch.
We had a fairly early dinner at Cracker Barrel (using up our stash of gift cards) and after dinner headed back out to Jekyell Island to end the day with a sunset walk. The beach was much smaller than it had been this morning due to it now being high tide. It was a really nice evening for a beach walk which we took advantage of until after the sky had completely darkened. By the time we made it back to the hotel we were both tired and ready for showers and bed.
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Back to Jekyll Island for a sunset/night walk
Interesting trees |
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| We probably should have gone the the other side of the Island for sunset but it was still pretty |
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| soft colors in the sky over the ocean even though the sun had set in the west |
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| More intriguing trees |
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